Life Quotes

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire p...

Carl Sagan

One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millenia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of hu...

Carl Sagan

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

Carl Sagan

...what books meant, the possibility they presented: you could protect them forever, store them up like engineers store water, endless resources of time and knowledge snared in ink, tied down to paper, layered on shelves...Moments made physical, unto...

Robert Jackson Bennett

To be effective as future organizations, we must know our fellow leaders better, deeper.

Holly Duckworth

Control in business is the combination of written and unwritten rules that create an organizational decision framework and staff hierarchy.

Holly Duckworth

Board and Staff relationships are critical in any business reboot—don’t overlook or undervalue them!

Holly Duckworth

Now it’s when you build your association with the members, they are already there.

Holly Duckworth

To reboot your association for success, you must shift your beliefs to realize how vitally important key investments in technology can be as an ongoing and personalized communication tool with your members.

Holly Duckworth

Flow with change or be dragged.

Holly Duckworth

Reboot your beliefs, create new thoughts, and choose powerful action.

Holly Duckworth

To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the biggest businesses is empowering and hopeful, rather than disappointing. My conclusion is not a moralistic one about who is right or wrong, admirable o...

Jared Diamond

Your money habits and investment strategy is not all about what you do, but much about who you are. Become the person it takes to do, succeed, and innovate.

Amah Lambert

You don't need to chase wealth, just become a real entrepreneur and the world is your oyster.

Amah Lambert

Reliability investing requires finding companies trading below their inherent worth--stocks with strong fundamentals including earnings, dividends, book value, and cash flow selling at bargain prices give their quality.

Amah Lambert

You know what capitalism produces. According to Marx and Engels." "Its own grave-diggers," he said. "But these are not the grave-diggers. This is the free market itself. These people are a fantasy generated by the market. They don't exist outside the...

Don DeLillo

Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work.

Arundhati Roy

Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.

Cassandra Clare

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

Rudyard Kipling

We don't have to accept the things we might change.

Kate Elliott

You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it

James Gleick