Quotes
“The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it yourself; he who goes away pleased with himself and his own wit is also greatly pleased with you.” —Jean de La Bruyèrep
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“I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” - Vincent van Gogh
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“A goal should scare you a little and excite you a lot.” -Joe Vitali
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“Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like." -Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb
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“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” -Richard Bach
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”It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.” -Hesiod
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“A good shoe is a shoe you don’t notice.” -C. S. Lewis
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“Quality is much better than quantity… One home run is much better than two doubles.” -Steve Jobs
I think about this quote all the time.
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”Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing” -Thomas H. Huxley
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“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” -Joseph Chilton Pearce
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“If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four hours sharpening the axe”. -Abe Lincoln
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“Education is more than the information we accumulate in our heads. It’s the habits we develop as we keep revising our drafts and the skills we build to keep learning.” -Adam Grant
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“Won’t you be walking in your predecessors’ footsteps? I surely will use the older path, but if I find a shorter and smoother way, I’ll blaze a trail there. The ones who pioneered these paths aren’t our masters, but our guides. Truth stands open to everyone, it hasn’t been monopolized.” -Seneca
“Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.”-Warren Buffett
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”Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts." -John Wooden
Mistakes are stepping stones to success.
Analyze what went awry and use that insight to make informed decisions moving forward.
Failure is not the end. It’s a pivot point.
#FailForward #ProduxtManagement
”Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”—Aristotle
Patience is a strategic virtue.
Crafting a lasting impact takes time.
Plant the seeds today that will grow into sweet perhaps monumental achievements tomorrow.
#productmanagement #virtue
“I have all my life been considering distant effects and always sacrificing immediate success and applause to that of the future” -Frederick Law Olmstead
Olmstead designed Central Park in New York, Biltmore in North Carolina, and the grounds of the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago
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“Brevity is the soul of wit” -William Shakespeare
_(specifically, Polonius, in Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2)
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