Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
Stephen R Covey
What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.
Fred Brooks
There is no more work-life balance; it's all life. The same is true with flextime. It doesn't exist anymore; there's just time. Those who experience the most success are the people who can appropriately manage their lives around achieving results versus adhering to concepts of life balance and flextime.
Kent Burns
You need to be rooted in reality. It's easy to get high on your own supply.
Elon Musk
We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Unless Hope is her name and she has a history of delivering, Hope is not a strategy.
Anonymous
There are seven days in the week and someday isn't one of them.
Shaquille O'Neal
The shelf life of knowledge, especially technical knowledge, is continuously shrinking.
Marshall Goldsmith
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso
The internet is the greatest self-teaching resource ever developed. But few take advantage of it, because it doesn’t come with a motor. No tests, no certificates, no cruise control.
Seth Godin
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.
Peter Drucker
The essence of effectiveness is that you get the results you want today in such a way that you can get even better results in the future.
Stephen R Covey
The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren Buffett
The best way to get what you want in life is to deserve what you want.
Charlie Munger
Stubbornness is not a character flaw, when you're right.
Chuck Noll
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs
Somebody, at some point, decided what data to collect, how to organize it, how to present it, and how to infer meaning from it - and it embeds all kinds of false rigor into the process.
Clayton Christensen
Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what you're doing.
Chuck Noll
Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.
Peter Drucker
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. Points.
Jeff Bezos
The three things I fear in life; an architect, a contractor and a hill.
Charlie Munger
Only boring people get bored.
Klay Thompson
My Dad always used to remind us that he wasn't a big shot and we weren't either.
Dan Rooney
Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating the talents of those who work for us and pointing them toward a certain goal.
Walt Disney
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
Harry S Truman
No Excuses. No Explanations. You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.
Tony Dungy
Never lie. Never cheat. Never steal. Don't whine. Don't complain. Don't make excuses.
John Wooden
Never feel sorry for yourself. The other thing you never want to have is Envy. That's the only one of the deadly sins you're never going to have any fun at at all.
Charlie Munger
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
Chuck Noll
Leaving the game plan is a sign of panic, and panic is not our game plan.
Chuck Noll
It's not what you're capable of, it's what you're willing to do.
Mike Tomlin
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
Warren Buffett
It's a lot harder to write simple things that sound unique then it is to write complex things that sound unique.
Wes Borland
It's a beautiful day. So act beautiful. And be beautiful. Or you just might miss the chance.
Sonny Sandoval
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Warren Buffett
It is very hard to predict, especially the future.
Niels Bohr
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
In relationships, the little things are the big things.
Stephen R Covey
In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time -- none, zero.
Charlie Munger
If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, you don't ask what seat. You just get on.
Eric Schmidt
If you want to make minor changes in your life, work on your behavior. But if you want to make significant, quantum breakthroughs, work on your paradigms.
Stephen R Covey
If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.
Eric Shinseki
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Richard Feynman
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same.
Rudyard Kipling
If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are our opinions, let’s go with mine.
Jim Barksdale
If it's a good idea... go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
Grace Hopper
Good things will happen if you keep working and doing things the right way.
Chuck Noll
From here on out you’re going to have lots of people around you. They’ll try to put a wall around you and cut you off from any ideas but theirs. They’ll tell you what a great man you are, Harry. But you and I both know you ain’t.
Sam Rayburn
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
Elon Musk
Champions do the ordinary things better than everyone else.
Chuck Noll
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs
If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.
Richard Branson
It is foolish to empower people who lack the ability or energy to sustain high performance on their own.
Drea Zigarmi
Make Your Own Happy
Jim Halpin
The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
Benjamin Franklin
Flattery is alright if you don't inhale.
Adlai Stevenson
I’m not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition. I think that I am qualified to speak only when I’ve reached that state.
Charlie Munger
I'm right, and you're smart, and sooner or later you'll see I'm right.
Charlie Munger
Avoid working directly under somebody you don’t admire and don’t want to be like.
Charlie Munger
Everybody engaged in complex work needs colleagues. Just the discipline of having to put your thoughts in order with somebody else is a very useful thing.
Charlie Munger
There is no compression algorithm for experience.
Andy Jassy
It seems like if it made sense they wouldn't do it.
Anonymous
Learn one. Do one. Teach one.
Anonymous
One man's junk become's another man's junk.
Anonymous
I still have a photographic memory although I no longer receive same-day service.
Warren Buffett
If you can't see yourself working with someone for life, don't work with them for a day.
Naval Ravikant
Order and complexity never arise spontaneously.
John MacArthur
Good intentions never work, you need good mechanisms to make anything happen.
Jeff Bezos
This is why it's not smart to be coach and GM at the same time. If you have both jobs, it's been proven to be incredibly difficult. A coach looks at next year. A GM has to look at five years down the road.
Steve Kerr
Invention requires two things: 1. The ability to try a lot of experiments, and 2. not having to live with the collateral damage of failed experiments.
Andy Jassy