2 Change: Machiavelli It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their favour; and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had the actual experience of it. • Niccolò Machiavelli • The Prince and The Discourses • The Modern Library, Random House, Inc., 1950 • Page 21, Chapter VI
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Change: MachiavelliIt must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their favour; and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had the actual experience of it.
• Niccolò Machiavelli • The Prince and The Discourses • The Modern Library, Random House, Inc., 1950• Page 21, Chapter VI
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Merchants > God
St. Jerome A merchant can seldom if ever please God.
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Business = Evil
St. Augustine Business is in itself evil.
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Nobly / Living
Rousseau It is too difficult to think nobly when one
thinks only of earning a living.
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Brain Office
Robert Frost The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts
working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
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Work sitting down
Ogden Nash People who work sitting down get paid more
than people who work standing up.
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Skill + Imagination
Tom Stoppard Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and
gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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Difficult to work
Peter Drucker So much of what we call management
consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Not wealth but dignity
Somerset Maugham It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough
to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Joy = excellence
Pearl Buck The secret of joy in work is contained in one
word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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Prize: work hard
Teddy Roosevelt Far and away the best prize that life offers is
the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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Happy in work
John Ruskin In order that people may be happy in their
work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: They must not do too much of it: And they must have a sense of success in it.
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Decide what you want
H. L. Hunt Decide what you want, decide what you are
willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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Good judge of work
John Ruskin ...in order that a man may be happy, it is
necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.
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Stop work
Leo Tolstoy In the name of God, stop a moment, cease
your work, look around you.
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Pleasure in job
Aristotle Pleasure in the job puts perfection in
the work.
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Time to play
John Cleese If you want creative workers, give them
enough time to play.
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Nothing without hard work
Horace Life grants nothing to us mortals
without hard work.
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Pope Pius XI It violates right order whenever capital
so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage, without the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.
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Tao Te Ching In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.In work, do what you enjoy.
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Stanley C. Gault We don't work for each other,
We work with each other.
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Art of leading
The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.
S.L.A. Marshall
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Quiet Leadership
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
Lao Tse
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Network of Mutuality
Martin Luther King Jr. All men are caught in an inescapable
network of mutuality.
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Limiting Gov’t Power
The limitation of governmental power means the enslavement of the people by the great corporations Teddy Roosevelt
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Working slowly
Frederick W. Taylor
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.
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Grasping Principles
Emerson Without ambition one starts nothing. Without
work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
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Practice vs Theory
French management saying It's all very well in practice, but it will
never work in theory.
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Work vs. credit
Gandhi There are two kinds of people: Those
who work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
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Quality not quantity
Gandhi It is the quality of our work which will
please God and not the quantity.
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Not success
Einstein One should guard against preaching to
young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
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Robert Reich Your most precious possession is not your
financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.
A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.
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Lloyd Dobens, Clare Crawford-Mason It is not a question of how well each
process works, the question is how well they all work together.
If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system.
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Kelly Griffith Any necessary work that pays an honest
wage carries its own honor and dignity.
George Sand Work is not man's punishment. It is his
reward and his strength and his pleasure.
Peter Drucker Management by objectives works if you first
think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.
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Paul Hawken 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.
Raoul Vaneigem The world of the commodity is a world upside-down,
which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
Calvin Coolidge More people out of work leads to higher unemployment.
George W. Bush The problem with the French is, they don’t have a word
for “entrepreneur”.
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Dick Cavett Do you consider yourself a disciplined
guy? Do you get up every day and “go to work”?
Jimi Hendrix Well, yeah. I try to get up every day.
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Lincoln I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves
me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
Robert Frost By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually
get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
G.K. Chesterton The classes that wash most are those that work least.
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Edward Abbey One man alone can be pretty dumb
sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
F. Phelps Our best work is done when it needs to be.
Charlie McCarthy Hard work never killed anybody, but why take
a chance?
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Samuel Gompers The worst crime against working
people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
United Nations reportWomen constitute half the world's
population, perform nearly two-thirds of its work hours, receive one-tenth of the world's income and own less than one-hundredth of the world's property.
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Quotes 17Benjamin Franklin
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Seneca We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things
to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.
E. Atkinson There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men
to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work.
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Robert Collier The great successful men of the world have used their
imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building.
Charles M. Schwab In my wide association in life, meeting with many and
great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.
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Doors of perception
William Blake When the doors of perception are
cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite.
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Perception -> Character
Ralph Waldo Emerson Do what you know and perception is
converted into character.
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Miyamoto Musashi Perception is strong and sight weak. In
strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
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Ansel Adams No man has the right to dictate what
other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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Nathaniel Brandon
Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.
Theodor W. Adorno Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an
authoritarian personality.
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Carl JungCreative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place
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T. T. Munger Knowledge and personality make
doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.
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Walt Whitman Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Carl Jung The meeting of two personalities is like the
contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Oscar Wilde Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
toward people we personally dislike.
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Alfred North Whitehead But you can catch yourself entertaining
habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
Kate Reid Acting is not being emotional, but being
able to express emotion.
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Mark Twain
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923)
No man ever listened himself out of a job. Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
John Morley in an 1884 essay that Carlyle is“all heat and no light” who “exhorts a reader to look into his ownsoul without supplying a practical key by which he might read whathe found there” (Morley 68-69). Morley, John. “The Man of Letters as Hero.” Nineteenth Century Essays. Selected and intro. Peter Stansky. Classics of British Historical Literature. Ed. John Clive. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1970. 59-72.
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Change
If you want to make enemies, try to change something. Woodrow Wilson
