Wise Owl Says ... by Brian O'Kane

Author:Brian O'Kane
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-84621-102-7
Publisher: Oak Tree Press

George Doriot

The real discipline comes in saying “No” to the wrong opportunities.

Peter Drucker

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Mark Twain

To die rich is to have lived in vain.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Business is like driving your car at night. You can’t see further than your headlights show, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Fran Rooney

What builds a brand online is your response to people’s questions.

Gerry McGovern

To the optimist, the glass is half-full.

To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty.

To the accountant, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

Anon.

The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a gravedigger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Douglas Jerrold

Be realistic – demand the impossible!

Anon., graffiti, Paris 1968

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is disappearing.

RD Laing

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second is that success equals skill.

Robert Heller

The reason American cities are prosperous is that there is no place to sit down.

Alfred J Talley

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

I never knew a politician to go wrong until he had been contaminated by contact with a businessman.

Finley Peter Dunne

There is something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognise ability.

Elbert Hubbard

I haven’t any time to make money, and I don’t want any anyhow. Money is more trouble than it’s worth.

Horace Greeley

The seven deadly sins: food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from a man’s neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

George Bernard Shaw

Nine out of ten businesses fail because of bad management.

JW Duncan

Put all your eggs into one basket – and WATCH THAT BASKET.

Mark Twain

The best simple-minded test of expertise in a particular area is an ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.

Graham Allison

A good leader knows he is doing a good job when he knows with certainty that he can say “Yes” to anything his staff asks and feel totally confident that they will do the right thing.

Bob Galvin, CEO, Motorola

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Samuel Johnson

We are not in the business of selling handbags. We are in the business of selling dreams.

Robert Polet, Gucci

Economy in itself s a great source of revenue.

Seneca

I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to 30 minutes a day. That leaves me 18 hours for engineering.

Charles Steinmetz

Do today. Finish today.

Donald Chen

Learning to read a balance sheet does not take a great deal more intelligence than learning to read racing form, and is more consistently rewarding.

T Syke

Without a shepherd, sheep are not a flock.

Russian proverb

Hard work is the best investment a man can make.

Charles M Schwab

Whoever can see three days ahead will be rich for a thousand years.

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