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All Quotes Collection
"The optimum committee has no members."
51
"The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity."
52
"There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two."
53
"Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing."
61
"Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters."
67
"A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist."
54
"All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'"
Mind,
38
"Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them."
52
"By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers."
39
"Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off."
49
"Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base."
47
"Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread."
54
"Hardware works best when it matters the least."
49
"If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance."
52
"If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off."
43
"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."
61
"The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works."
49
"Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand."
175
"Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others."
God,
59
"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
226
"Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider."
79
"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again."
52
"To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
178
"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."
Time,
41
"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."
45
"We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot."
50
"The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences."
50
"To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it."
Sin,
189
"Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty."
Art,
48
"Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee."
43
"This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections."
187
"There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart."
41
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