"Giving up the illusion that you can predict the future is a very liberating moment. All you can do is give yourself the capacity to respond... the creation of that capacity is the purpose of strategy." - Lord John Browne Chairman of BP
No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
“Talk does not cook rice.” – Chinese proverb
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain
“The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.” – Rosabeth Moss Cantor
“The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.” – Charles Schwab
“Thinking is the very essence of, and the most difficult thing to do in, business and in life. Empire builders spend hour-after-hour on mental work… while others party.” – David Kekich
“Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be fish.” – Ovid
“I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin
“Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to be working.” –Anonymous