“Plans are worthless, planning is everything.” Eisenhower
“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a narrow field.” Neils Bohr
“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.” Oscar Wilde
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” Plato
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” Simone Weil
“The first step towards getting somewhere is deciding you’re not doing to stay were you are.” J.P. Morgan
“Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two – and only two – basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs. Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.” Peter Drucker
“Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing people.” David Packard
When an interviewer asked Verdi why he had taken on the challenging work of writing the opera “Falstaff” at age 80, he replied, ” All my life as a musician I have striven for perfection. It has always eluded me. I surely have an obligation to make one more try.”
“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.”- Albert Einstein.
“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”- Gen Eric Shinseki.
“Without promotion, something terrible happens…nothing!” – P.T. Barnum.
“To sell something surprising, make it familiar. To sell something familiar, make it surprising.”- Raymond Loewry.
“Ask yourself what makes you come alive rather than what the world needs. The world needs people that have come alive.”- Howard Thurman.
“I read a story once of a group of Jews who were escaping the Nazis. They were walking over a mountain, and they carried with them the sick, the old, and the children. A lot of old people fell by the wayside and said ‘I am a burden go on without me.’ They were told, ‘The mothers need respite, so instead of just sitting there and dying, would you take the babies and walk as far as you can?’ Once the old people held the babies close to their bosom and started walking, they all went over the mountain. They had a reason to live.”- Ruby Dee.