Het beste moment om een boom te planten is twintig jaar geleden, het één na beste moment is nu.

Afrikaans gezegde

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Derek Bok (president of Harvard University, 1971-1990)

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master – that’s all."

Lewis Carroll  (in Through the Looking Glass)

How do I know what I think until I hear what I say?

Iers gezegde

When there's no one to blame and no one to complain to, there’s a tremendous sense of potential. If you don’t like your life the way it is, then change it.

Nisandeh Neta

Everything you could have been, all the accolades you could have won and all the achievements that have been nagging at your mind until now, didn’t happen for one reason only. You procrastinated.

Nisandeh Neta

Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.

Nisandeh Neta

Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things. Success is doing the right things, right, right now.

Nisandeh Neta

In order to become good in anything, the only talent you need is motivation.

Nisandeh Neta

If you're attempting to create something perfect, I have three words of advice for you: Get over it!

Nisandeh Neta

People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organizations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead, not for them but for ourselves.

Simon Sinek

Synthesis is the essence of managing: putting things together, in the form of coherent strategies, unified organizations, and integrated systems. This is what makes managing so difficult – and so interesting. It’s not that managers don’t need analysis; it’s that they need it as input to synthesis. Where to find synthesis in a world so decomposed by analysis.

Henry Mintzberg

The test of first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I think intellect is a good thing unless it paralyzes your ability to make decisions because you see to much complexity. Presidents need to have what I would call a synthesizing intelligence.

Bill Clinton

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Dr. David Schwartz (auteur van"The Magic of Thinking Big")

When one door closes another one opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that
makes a difference.

Nolan Bushnell (oprichter van Atari)

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

Peter Drucker

Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.

Peter Drucker

Het is niet genoeg, te weten, men moet ook toepassen; het is niet genoeg, te willen, men moet ook handelen.

 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Iedereen hoort alleen wat hij begrijpt.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A firm's income statement may be likened to a bikini - what it reveals is interesting, but what it conceals is vital.

Burton G. Malkiel in A Random Walk Down Wall Street.

For every complex problem there is a simple solution that is wrong.

George Bernard Shaw

October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.

Mark Twain