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Quotes by Croatian Authors

"Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence."

"I don't want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller."


"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best."


"Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless."


"He was driven by the idea that when Milosevic grabs a part of Bosnia, Croatia should get a piece of it, too."


"I think we can find a formula that would be to everyone's satisfaction, which would make it possible for Croatia to take some more steps and for Europe to accept us into its midst, and for the talks to start."


"Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied."

"The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated."


"The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'."


"Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield."


"Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price."

"It's fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system."

"Success is mainly the result of hard work."


"A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept."

"Always think about the needs of others because being a part of a group isan essential characteristic of human nature."

"Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management."

"Continuous denial of rational arguments represents a contempt of common sense."

"If you are born to lead, be a leader!"

"Ideas tell a lot about a person who generated them."

"You asked about important factors in management. I think the answer is quite simple " the most important factor is motivation."

"Curiosity is crucial for innovation. We are all born curious, but only a small number of people remain curious for a lifetime."

"The meaning of man's existence is not to dominate over others, but to better humanity."
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