Quotable Quotations

"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote."

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:37:20 +0000

“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.”

- George Jean Nathan

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly..."

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:08:26 +0000

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.”

- G.K. Chesterton

"Sir, a woman’s preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs. It is not done well;..."

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:31:05 +0100

“Sir, a woman’s preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.”

- Samuel Johnson

"Brands were a by-product of having great products and communicating them well to people. Power..."

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:57:00 +0100

“Brands were a by-product of having great products and communicating them well to people. Power stations that generate a lot of electricity probably have a lot of steam coming out of the chimneys. That doesn’t mean to say that the engineers stand around working out how to make more steam.”

- Hans Snook

"Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face."

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:44:37 +0000

“Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.”

- Mike Tyson

"Real winners do not compete."

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:45:57 +0000

“Real winners do not compete.”

- Samuli Puronen

"Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted."

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:40:27 +0000

“Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted.”

- Pasi Sahlberg

"You can make money or you can make sense. The two are mutually exclusive."

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:46:59 +0000

“You can make money or you can make sense. The two are mutually exclusive.”

- Buckminster Fuller

"Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us..."

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:24:00 +0000

“Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.”

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"Visualizing data is like photography. Instead of starting with a blank canvas, you manipulate the..."

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:27:32 +0000

“Visualizing data is like photography. Instead of starting with a blank canvas, you manipulate the lens used to present the data from a certain angle.”

- Paul Butler

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:51:17 +0000

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”

- Frank Zappa

"If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large"

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:44:56 +0000

“If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large”

- Jeff Bezos

"Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable."

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:02:52 +0000

“Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.”

- Kevin Kelly

"You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first..."

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:29:08 +0100

“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.”

- René Daumal

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:20:29 +0100

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

- Abraham Lincoln

"A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him..."

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:10:57 +0100

“A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.”

- Leon Festinger

"I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming..."

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:09:53 +0100

“I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.”

- David Ogilvy

"Just because you were born in a stable doesn’t make you a horse."

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:15:05 +0100

“Just because you were born in a stable doesn’t make you a horse.”

- Kevin Rowland

"Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit."

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:31:41 +0100

“Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit.”

- Joe Louis

"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:06:26 +0000

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”

- Gustave Flaubert