When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a

reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Warren Buffett quotes

Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either.
Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people
involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.
Colin Powell quotes

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which
approach best accomplishes the team's mission.
Colin Powell quotes

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle,
of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . .
Peter F. Drucker quotes

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent
of the time you haven't.
Peter F. Drucker quotes

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter F. Drucker quotes

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people
obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
Lao Tzu quotes

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Kin Hubbard quotes

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who
are still undecided.
Anonymous quotes

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

Anonymous quotes
As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what
happens when you are not there.
Anonymous quotes

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so
constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
Anonymous quotes

Rather than seeking out contrary or little-understood points of view, many of us

need so badly to be told we’re right that we’ll pay people to do it.
-- Michael E. Raynor
I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a
little talent.
-- John Wooden
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
-- John Wooden
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
-- John Wooden
One way to stimulate a creative mindset is to avoid the typical focus of
organizations on what is and to ask, instead, what if questions. Doing this
regularly tests your ability to see things anew.
-- Patrick Harris
1. James Hoopes
MBA students need more than professed values. They need to know that the world
is morally complex and morally dangerous. They need to know that bad deeds can
come from good values. They need to know that valuing integrity enough to keep
one’s hands off other people’s money is only the beginning, not the end of
business ethics.

There are many ethical questions in business life that we cannot answer by
professing values. And the wrong answer to those questions can start us
unawares down a slippery slope that quickly turns sticky. Devoting an hour or two
of an MBA curriculum to moral philosophy is a good way to give students an
understanding of why professed values will not protect them against such moral
dangers. Yes, it’s important to make the philosophical complexities simple! And of
course it is important to move quickly to practice.

But a quick look at just three moral philosophers – Aristotle, Kant, and Mill –
shows why confident reliance on professed values can make for bad ethics
Aristotle valued virtue or character. Kant valued rationality and duty. Mill valued
utility.

All those values are good, but they often conflict in practical life. A manager may
value kindness as a virtue and therefore rightly want to avoid lay offs. But the
same manager may simultaneously and rightly feel a need for layoffs because he
or she also values profit (utility) and duty to shareholders.

Managers in such situations where their real values conflict with each other will
hardly be helped by pre-announced values claims. Rather they need to know what
Aristotle, Kant, and Mill teach, together if not individually. Good values such as
virtue, duty, and utility can conflict. In such cases, managers need some other
things besides supposed values or even real values to help decide what’s right.

2. Roger Martin
A great business design school would have the student go much deeper on
understanding the user and the user experience than we currently do in business
schools. I would like to have students start with a project where they have to go
out and understand everything they can about users – whether it be beer drinkers
or car drivers.The skills you need for this are skills of observation and inquiry and
we don’t teach that in MBA programs.

3. Joel Spolsky
Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching
someone who doesn't know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great
advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board
again and again. The cult of the M.B.A. likes to believe that you can run
organizations that do things that you don't understand. But often, you can't.

4. Charles Handy
The letters MBA should, if the schools were honest, stand for Master of Business
Analysis, because the tools and disciplines of analysis are what the students
learn, not management, or administration as it used to be called. Analysis is a
necessary part of good management and leadership but it is not the whole of it.
Who to trust, how to inspire, how brave to be, how forgiving or not—these
relationship and judgment skills may be discussed in a classroom but they can
only be learned by practicing them.

You can bring the world into the classroom but you cannot replicate it there. The
new MBA graduate should carry a white flag as she or he goes to work for the first
time—"I know how to count," it would say. "Now teach me how to do."
5. Rakesh Khurana
The reality is that almost all the high professions require continuing education in
order to ensure that their practitioners are up to date with the newest knowledge
and techniques. Given the rapidity by which our business context is changing, the
graduates of business schools should be able to access continuing education. If
we really do believe that knowledge is important for effective practice, then it
would seem that having some mechanism for connecting graduates to what is
relevant would be very important.

6. Rakesh Khurana
My worry-and this is not limited to business schools-is that we have created a
context in which people want the status of a profession without any of the
constraints of a profession. A profession is not only about the benefits that you
claim. It's also about what you renounce.

I think one of the roles of a professional school in higher education is to make

clear to the students not only the privileges they get but also the responsibilities
that they have, and then to create the necessary governance systems to ensure
that those responsibilities are fulfilled to the best of everyone's ability.

7. Brad Feld
If you want a two year break from life, go to business school. If you want to meet a
bunch of new, generally smart, and always interesting people, go to business
school. If you are a techie but like the business side of things, want to get an
intellectual (and functional grounding) in business stuff, want a two year break
from life, and want to meet interesting people, go to business school.

8. Pierre Yves (P Y) Gerbeau

I could spend days talking about management style. But every business is
different - there is not a recipe or a Drucker book in which you can learn about
management. Doing an MBA you will learn about strategy, finance, marketing...but
you will never learn about management. You will only learn about management by
doing it.
9. Mary Crossan, Fernando Olivera
Management education and management practice have been anchored in
functions, or what academics refer to as disciplines. The last two decades have
seen phenomenal growth in the body of knowledge and associated expertise in the
field of management. Drawing on disciplines such as economics, psychology and
sociology, business schools developed their own acumen in areas such as finance
and marketing. Faculty became experts in these areas and spawned many
generations of business graduates with strong functional expertise. A general
management orientation was traditionally achieved by integrative courses that
drew on all functional areas. The "chinks in the armour" of this approach have
been apparent for some time. The "silo mentality" of business is a direct result of
this functional focus.

Before the tremendous bodies of functional knowledge emerged, the focus was on
issues. The challenge today is to build on the functional knowledge without being
a prisoner of it.

10. Charles Handy

Business schools teach you the language of business, and that's quite useful. It's
like if you want to go to work in France you have to learn French. It doesn't mean
you're going to be very good in France, but it's good to learn the language. I think
that what business schools do is to teach you the language of business and some
managerial skills, that sort of stuff. But that doesn't necessarily mean you're going
to be any kind of a good businessman, manager or even a good leader.

11. Matthew Stewart

The best business schools will tell you that management education is mainly
about building skills--one of the most important of which is the ability to think (or
what the M.B.A.s call "problem solving"). But do they manage to teach such skills?

What they don't seem to teach you in business school is that "the five forces" and
"the seven Cs" and every other generic framework for problem solving are
heuristics: they can lead you to solutions, but they cannot make you think. Case
studies may provide an effective way to think business problems through, but the
point is rather lost if students come away imagining that you can go home once
you've put all of your eggs into a two-by-two growth-share matrix.

Next to analysis, communication skills must count among the most important for
future masters of the universe. To their credit, business schools do stress these
skills, and force their students to engage in make-believe presentations to one
another. On the whole, however, management education has been less than a
boon for those who value free and meaningful speech. M.B.A.s have taken
obfuscatory jargon-otherwise known as bullshit-to a level that would have made
even the Scholastics blanch.

12. George Shultz

I've always conceived a business school education as being a process of helping
you learn how to learn from experience. It should put you in a position where,
when you leave and start having experiences in the workplace, you will make the
most of those experiences as you continue to learn.

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13. Jeffrey Pfeffer

Think about what business schools do:They train people to talk about ideas and
concepts and to solve problems. But the one thing they typically don't do is train
students how to actually do anything - not just analyze problems but implement
their solutions in the messy world of real people.

Ask yourself this question:Would you undergo heart surgery if the surgeon had
been trained in the same way that business-school students are trained? Imagine
that the surgeon had sat around in medical school discussing heart-surgery
cases, watching heart-surgery videos, and listening to great heart surgeons talk
about what they did - and now you're lying on the operating table, as that
surgeon's first real patient.Would you let that surgeon cut you open?

The truth is that business school is more about talking than doing. After
graduation, many B-school students take jobs in management consulting. I've
always found the job market to be perplexing for this reason:You can be a plant
manager - actually have what it takes to run a plant - and make up to $100,000 a
year. Or you can talk about plant management and make twice that. Why do people
get paid more for talking about things than for actually doing them? The message
from the job market is that it's more important and more valuable to be clever than
it is to have the ability to make something happen.

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14. Henry Mintzberg

MBA programmes tend to emphasise analysis and technique - they teach you to
understand market research, to evaluate financial data and so on. All those things
are fine and important but if you take that to be management, you're in trouble.
Conventional MBA programmes are mostly for young people with little or no
experience. Management isn't a science or a profession that can be taught in a
classroom. It's a practice. And it's a practice that grows out of experience.

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15. Henry Mintzberg

Business schools train people to sit in their offices and look for case studies. The
more Harvard succeeds, the more business fails.

16. Jeffrey Garten

When it comes to business education, for better or worse -- and I think for worse --
business schools are followers, not leaders. Typically, business schools hold their
finger up to the wind and ask, What do our customers want? They have two kinds
of customers. One is the people who are doing the hiring, and the other is the
students. I happen to think that's a pernicious concept -- the idea that students are
customers -- because it assumes that students know best what kind of education
they should have. But that is the culture in most business schools.

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17. Jeffrey Garten

Over the last fifteen years there have been a lot of ratings of business schools,
and these ratings are very akin to customer-satisfaction ratings. You're basically
asking the students, How good was the experience? That presumes that the
students know what it is that they should be learning, or whether the environment
in a particular school is better than another school that they never attended. And
that attitude really undermines the notion of education. If you don't believe that the
educational institution and the professors know more about the learning process
than you do, then you shouldn't bother to go to the school. The notion that these
are customers deflates a lot of quality; if professors are constantly rated on how
well the students like them and the course, then the rigor and challenge of the
course is oftentimes diluted. In other words, the measure of the professor's
success in the classroom is an artificial measure. So all these ratings have had the
effect of dumbing down the curriculum of a lot of business schools.
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18. Joseph Lampel

Business schools are invaluable for laying the foundations for the practice of
management. This is especially true for marketing, finance, or human resources,
but far less so for strategy. The problem with the current system is that it forces
strategy into the direct and narrow approach to teaching. If the shortest distance
between two points in geometry is a straight line, then the shortest distance
between teaching and learning consists of making students internalize concepts
as rapidly and as efficiently as possible. A deep grasp of strategy, however, resists
this approach because understanding strategy means seeing and understanding
parts and wholes simultaneously.

In strategy, good foundations consist of understanding the whole and the parts of
strategy, separately and together. Business schools are ideal for understanding
the parts, less so for the wholes, and not at all for the relationship between the
two. Understanding this relationship is at the heart of strategy.

There is a balance between talking and thinking, analysis and reflection. Teaching
strategy moves back and forth between these dualities. The desired outcome is
strong intuitive capabilities combined with a developed ability to articulate.
Intuitive capabilities are essential for recognizing the parts and wholes that make
up strategy; articulating is necessary for exploring and developing an
understanding of how they interact. The process exists to ensure that intuition
helps articulation and articulating reinforces intuition.

The process can easily go wrong, and our present educational systems almost
ensure that it does go wrong. Direct learning reinforces the tendency to over-
articulate. Students learn to apply SWOT analysis, industry analysis, or value
chain analysis but these tools drain strategy of its complexity and nuance. The
opposite is also true. Paradoxically, direct learning reinforces the tendency to be
over-intuitive. Students learn strategy as a set of disconnected and abstract
words. From there it is a small step to mastering words like 'competencies',
'vision', and 'leadership' which explain very little.

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19. P Y Gerbeau
I hate management books but I'm a big fan of business books. I love to read about
business, strategy and very clever business people. I love to read about
marketing, corporate finance, the new accounting tools that are coming in. But no
management book can tell you how to be a CEO. The MBA is a commodity - it's a
guidebook but it's theory. There is nothing to match practice and the practice is all
about managing people. If you understand people, you'll make it.

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20. Carl Pascarella

When I was at Stanford a professor of organizational behavior told a bunch of us,
"You folks kill me. You've spent all your time on economics, on statistics, on
policy, on accounting. Those of you that are going to end up running businesses,
you're going to hire economists and CFOs and IT people and statisticians. But
what it's all about is motivating people; it's getting to know people." That was one
of the best pieces of advice that I ever got. Don't lose the human side of business,
don't lose the organizational side. Because if you do, you're only going to get so
far.

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21. Henry Mintzberg

The typical business school today is concerned with business functions, not
management. Certainly managers have to understand business functions-
marketing, accounting, sales, and so on-but the practice of business is not the
same as the practice of management. Mixing all these functions together in a
person is not going to produce a manager.

Now, while business schools have been successful in analyzing things, in

separating all these specialized functions, they have not been successful in
putting them together, in synthesizing them into a coherent vision or integrated
system. That's the difficult-and the interesting-part of management.

The trouble with business schools' emphasis on analysis is that it leads to an

emphasis on technique or formula thinking. I define technique as something that
can be used in place of a brain, and management schools have made a specialty of
offering courses in techniques-empowerment techniques for human resources or
portfolio models for financial resources. I'm not saying that technique doesn't
have a place in management, but it must be used carefully and in context, not
generically by people on the fast track who see technique as a way of
compensating for a lack of experience. You've heard of the so-called rule of the
tool: Give somebody a hammer and everything looks like a nail. Well, MBA
programs have given their graduates so many hammers that many organizations
look like smashed-up beds of nails.

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22. Henry Mintzberg

A profession has a codified body of knowledge, and to practice a profession you
need to be trained and certified...But we don't have much codified knowledge in
management, and we certainly have no accreditation that ensures people are good
managers; in fact, the most common accreditation-the MBA-is exactly the
opposite. We have great managers who have never spent a day in a management
program. We don't have great surgeons who never spent a day in medical school,
or great engineers who never studied physics. So the idea of management as a
profession doesn't hold up at all. There's no aspect of management that conforms
to professional qualifications.

As far as being a science, physics is a science; chemistry and biology are

sciences. Management isn't a science; it isn't about finding truth. Management
isn't even an applied science, because that's still a science. Management is the
application of science, among many other things. Managers use whatever they can
in a practical way to get things done or to encourage other people to get things
done.

Most management is a craft-that is, it relies on experience, on-the-job learning. I

put it this way: It's as much about doing in order to think as thinking in order to do.

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23. Henry Mintzberg

Full-time MBA programs by their nature attract many of the wrong people--too
impatient and analytical, with little experience in management itself. These may be
fine traits for students, but they can be tragically ill-suited for managers.

Conventional MBA programs then compound the error by giving the wrong
impression of management: that managers are important people disconnected
from the daily work of making products and producing services; that managing is
largely about decision making through analysis; that managers pronounce
deliberate strategies for everyone else to implement; and worst of all, that by
sitting still in a classroom for a couple of years, you are now ready to manage
anything.
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24. David A. Garvin

The case method does little to cultivate caution. Decisiveness is rewarded, not
inaction. Students can become trigger-happy as a result, committed "to taking
action where action may not be justified or to force a solution where none is
feasible." Class discussions can easily polarize. Persuasiveness is valued-but not
publicly changing one's own mind. Few students do so in the course of
discussion; if anything, positions tend to harden as debate continues. Skilled
managers, by contrast, try to stay flexible, altering their positions as new evidence
and arguments emerge.

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25. Richard Brookhiser

Law school worships understanding, business school worships skill. Law-school
students scrutinize what has been done. If business-school students don't quite
learn by doing, they learn how things have been done.

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A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

Frank Howard Clark

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

Bil Keane

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words

become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Thomas Carlyle
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
Boethius

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of
woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled,
but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
George Jean Nathan

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Henri B. Stendhal

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the
open sea.
Honore de Balzac

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as

the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly
in love all the time.
Julie Andrews

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love
with words.
William Shakespeare

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a

few times.
Rita Rudner

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving

someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be

truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when
we awaken.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with
someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach

Do all things with love.

Og Mandino

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

George Bernard Shaw
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good
sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They
say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
Barack Obama

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because

Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything
is going to be OK.
Barack Obama

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition.
Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and
progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama

Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible -

they just don't think their leaders do.
Barack Obama

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a

nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
Barack Obama

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other
time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that
we seek.
Barack Obama

Community colleges play an important role in helping people

transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to
take on a new career.
Barack Obama
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of
ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you
hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize
your true potential.
Barack Obama

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than
$250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income
tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your
taxes.
Barack Obama

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Barack Obama

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United

States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they
appear.
Barack Obama

I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're

headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the
American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to
deliver.
Barack Obama

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I

am opposed to is a rash war.
Barack Obama

I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am

president, they won't find a job in my White House.
Barack Obama

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for
me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
Barack Obama

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled

to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people.
We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our
actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
Barack Obama
I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed
and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose
any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians
from marrying.
Barack Obama

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I

am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a
threat.
Barack Obama

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
Barack Obama

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families,
because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise
taxes on the middle class.
Barack Obama
I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care
about, my entire career.
Barack Obama

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to
teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a
mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
Barack Obama

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it
exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all
else is lost.
Barack Obama

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep
walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Barack Obama

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the

world.
Barack Obama

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a

politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
Barack Obama
Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely
will you hear me simplify the issues.
Barack Obama

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today,
but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of
making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit
better than the one we inhabit today.
Barack Obama

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion
or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant
sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their
frustrations.
Barack Obama

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in

Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we
need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more
transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a
new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Barack Obama

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

Barack Obama

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition
we are going to be having meetings all across the country with
community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for
the next presidency of the United States of America.
Barack Obama

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

Barack Obama

My administration is the only thing between you [CEO's] and the

pitchforks.
Barack Obama

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to

Washington.
Barack Obama
My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an
abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an
African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America
your name is no barrier to success.
Barack Obama

No one is pro-abortion.
Barack Obama

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very
large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian
nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a
nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
Barack Obama

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have

reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our
lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This
Administration has overextended our military.
Barack Obama

Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United
States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
Barack Obama
People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our
time.
Barack Obama

Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets

from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in
Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The
poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.
Barack Obama

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in

helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both
wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to
our standing in the Arab world.
Barack Obama

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than
15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to
my wife.
Barack Obama
The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way
they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is
remarkable.
Barack Obama

The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many

other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a
Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.
Barack Obama

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
Barack Obama

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots
who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging
allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United
States of America.
Barack Obama

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is

the United States of America. There is not a black America and a
white America and latino America and asian America - there's the
United States of America.
Barack Obama

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the

United States of America.
Barack Obama

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open
markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade
has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But
we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not
the many.
Barack Obama

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet.
Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the
oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our
lands.
Barack Obama

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who

would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most
basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those
freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true
direction.
Barack Obama

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not

because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our
military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very
simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred
years ago.
Barack Obama

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our
homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other
countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going
to happen.
Barack Obama

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve

the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a
civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong,
just as well-funded.
Barack Obama

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our

students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have
the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get
the best education possible.
Barack Obama

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found.

They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
Barack Obama

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by

line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
Barack Obama

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize

what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand
what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old
- and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
Barack Obama
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a
lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want

to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments
but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone
should try to realize their full potential.
Barack Obama

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like

federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We
coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red
States.
Barack Obama

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

Barack Obama

What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole
point! Seriously.
Barack Obama

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Barack Obama

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first
to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global
terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one
from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
Barack Obama

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot
possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation.
Effective international police actions require the highest degree of
intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack Obama

Why can't I just eat my waffle?

Barack Obama

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But

community colleges provide lifetime employability.
Barack Obama
You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
Barack Obama

You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.
Barack Obama
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Albert Einstein

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main

problem.
Albert Einstein

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others

crazy?
Albert Einstein

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man
need to be happy?
Albert Einstein

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert Einstein

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity

for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the
springs of man's actions.
Albert Einstein

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Albert Einstein

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Albert Einstein

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It
takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction.
Albert Einstein

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not
giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls
into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be

trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not

certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age

eighteen.
Albert Einstein

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of
all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your
diagrams and equations.
Albert Einstein
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been
happy.
Boethius

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was
not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Lord Byron

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger

than yourself. Everybody should try it.
Barbara Pym

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be

something to someone.
Javan

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be
no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

George Eliot

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the
thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half
in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
J. D. Salinger

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God,

whence cometh any good?
Boethius

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one

day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than
because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Ovid

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love
says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet
remain two.
Erich Fromm

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult

to know that it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
Miguel de Unamuno

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Kahlil Gibran

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to
be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular
qualities or advantages.
Marcel Proust

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did
not say so.
David Grayson

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an

illusion.
Javan

Love conquers all.

Virgil

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet
each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love
is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James A. Baldwin

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by

imagination.
Voltaire

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

Eva Gabor

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person

and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

William Shakespeare

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without

expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
Leo Buscaglia

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a

habit.
Peter Ustinov

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

Love is being stupid together.

Paul Valery

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

H. L. Mencken

Love is love's reward.

John Dryden

Love is metaphysical gravity.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight

girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Judith Viorst

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

John Keats

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the

species.
W. Somerset Maugham

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity

which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone
else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Saint Augustine

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Miguel de Unamuno

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

H. L. Mencken

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

John Lennon

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Ben Hecht

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Honore de Balzac
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we
take to have sex.
Daniel S. Greenberg

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H. L. Mencken

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young,
the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of
the old.
John Ciardi

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

James Thurber

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

Erich Segal
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know
we cannot live within.
James A. Baldwin

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Love that is not madness is not love.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same
direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

John Donne

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can
hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.

Boethius
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human
beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can
grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which
makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

William Congreve

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and
gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a
second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have
nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
David Byrne

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one
man.
Tammy Wynette

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something
warm to come to.
Tammy Wynette

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of

antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both
together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Robert Browning

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

The best proof of love is trust.

Joyce Brothers
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a

fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but
when they do.
Nan Fairbrother
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden,
a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make
me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I
have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Edward Moore

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger
for bread.
Mother Teresa

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called
love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will
discover that for you the world is transformed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or
simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is only one terminal dignity - love.

Helen Hayes

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the

dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping
in the cold night's arms.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too
long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for
those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the
greatest pain in hell.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle

in the sun.
Robert Burton

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three
parts dead.
Bertrand Russell

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live

forever.
Henry Drummond

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have
seen.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only
end.
Benjamin Disraeli

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love.
It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed
person.
W. Somerset Maugham

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our

embarrassment when alone together.
Jean de la Bruyere

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the
perfect love.
Tom Robbins
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that
God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Pearl Bailey

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte

When love is not madness, it is not love.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation
comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them
to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from
you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Willa Cather

Where there is love there is life.

Mohandas Gandhi

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Boethius

Who, being loved, is poor?

Oscar Wilde

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to
love - and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
Wayne Dyer

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.
Werner Erhard

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when
you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in
the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to
characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you

mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.
Albert Einstein

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Albert Einstein

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count;

everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert Einstein

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own
hearts.
Albert Einstein

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which

differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people
are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Albert Einstein

God always takes the simplest way.

Albert Einstein

God does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

Albert Einstein

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from

mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as

good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned
my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for
him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome

nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I
hate them!
Albert Einstein

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot
find it.
Albert Einstein

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of

religion.
Albert Einstein

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Albert Einstein
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and
forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Dalai Lama

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Dalai Lama

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Dalai Lama
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
Dalai Lama

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Dalai Lama

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice
compassion.
Dalai Lama

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Dalai Lama

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we
cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
Dalai Lama

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From
this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will
come.
Dalai Lama

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new
day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a
meaningful day.
Dalai Lama

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't
hurt them.
Dalai Lama

Sleep is the best meditation.

Dalai Lama

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one
creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Dalai Lama

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Dalai Lama

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical
analysis.
Dalai Lama

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart
are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lamasds
am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end
war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert Einstein

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the
body and the mind.
Albert Einstein

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a
reflection of human frailty.
Albert Einstein

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively

human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Albert Einstein

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb.
Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Albert Einstein

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

Albert Einstein

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be
fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
Albert Einstein

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The
hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Albert Einstein

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
Albert Einstein

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a
sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Albert Einstein

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Albert Einstein
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a
good man because he is a good talker.
Buddha

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil
thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows
him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Buddha

All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions.
Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
Buddha

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
Buddha

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Buddha

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only
as an idea.
Buddha

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound
your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Buddha

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Buddha

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present
moment.
Buddha

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not
obtain peace of mind.
Buddha

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as
many suicides as despair.
Buddha

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Buddha

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

Buddha
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Buddha

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer
too much, others too little.
Buddha

He is able who thinks he is able.

Buddha

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own
Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
Buddha

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
Buddha

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best
relationship.
Buddha

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone
else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you
if you do not act on upon them?
Buddha

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that
falls on them unless they act.
Buddha

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
Buddha

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
Buddha

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their
own minds and then beleive them to be true.
Buddha

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It
cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

Buddha

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Buddha

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and
wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human
life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little,
and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't
die; so, let us all be thankful.
Buddha

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the
path.
Buddha

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by
day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can
destroy him.
Buddha

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Buddha

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and
compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Buddha

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

Buddha

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Buddha

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Buddha
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about
the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.

Buddha

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found
solitary in any breast.
Buddha

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you,
depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Buddha

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a
sieve.
Buddha

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way,
and not starting.
Buddha

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Buddha

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a
poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that
irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not
be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Buddha

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
Buddha

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one
must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find
the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind
strong and clear.
Buddha

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of
abundance.
Buddha

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already
two.
Buddha

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Buddha

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless
thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves
them.
Buddha

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy
follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make
the world.
Buddha

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where
each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people
as they pass each other in this flood?
Buddha

What we think, we become.

Buddha

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be
influenced by them for good or ill.
Buddha

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in
listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free
of fear.
Buddha

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
Buddha

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Buddha

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your
love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You
yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
Buddha

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
Buddha

Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to
reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further
proliferation.
Kofi Annan

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in
helping to build a more robust global community.
Kofi Annan

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the
cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
Kofi Annan

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge
of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
Kofi Annan

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby
begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
Kofi Annan

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for
development.
Kofi Annan

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
Kofi Annan

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first
decades of the new millennium, who will?
Kofi Annan

In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new,
more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race
or religion.
Kofi Annan

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
Kofi Annan

In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.
Kofi Annan

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security
Council.
Kofi Annan

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

Kofi Annan

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every

society, in every family.
Kofi Annan

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because
they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
Kofi Annan

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
Kofi Annan

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only
if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
Kofi Annan

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum
standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.
Kofi Annan

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing
countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
Kofi Annan

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
Kofi Annan

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

Bill Gates

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill Gates

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top
- I'm afraid that's not quite right.
Bill Gates

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Bill Gates

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

Bill Gates

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be
in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where
you're giving it away.
Bill Gates

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be
moved to act.
Bill Gates

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of
the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Bill Gates

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool
we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can
be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in
terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of
freedoms that they're interested in.
Bill Gates

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years
without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here.
It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
Bill Gates

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving
$25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
Bill Gates

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Bill Gates

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Bill Gates

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are
interested in helping you find yourself.
Bill Gates

Life is not fair; get used to it.

Bill Gates

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers
to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.
Bill Gates

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

Bill Gates

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?
People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and
ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Bill Gates

People everywhere love Windows.

Bill Gates

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able
to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if
we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
Bill Gates

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This
is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down
to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill Gates

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating
them, the teacher is the most important.
Bill Gates

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to
jobs.
Bill Gates

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient
operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient
operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Bill Gates

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a
passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all
these fascist lawsuits.
Bill Gates

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-
one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
Bill Gates

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to
change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
Bill Gates

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there
is no shortage of things to do.
Bill Gates

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate
the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Bill Gates

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
Bill Gates
We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
Bill Gates

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

Bill Gates

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a
trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
Bill Gates

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it
keeps us on our toes.
Bill Gates

Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where
the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that
does not please Windows.
Bill Gates

You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be
programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.
Bill Gates

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Bill Gates