Quotations - Famous Quotes from Ancient to the Present

[Aaron Lupo]

My favorite of all time:

"It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new one" - Niccolo Machiavelli (The Prince)

 

[Al Rosen]

In the Old Testament, there is a passage like "For without vision, the people shall perish". Can someone tell which passage? That is one Author I don't want to plagiarize!

Proverbs 29:18 Where [there is] no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy [is] he.

 

[Rob Nix]

Tom, re:

In the Old Testament, there is a passage like "For without vision, the people shall perish". Can someone tell which passage?

Proverbs 29:18

 

[JStain - 2008]

Quotes

"When your swimming in Sh@# lake, you learn not to spalsh" Anaon

"What the @#$, where did all those indians come from?" General Custer :mg:

"What are these blips on my rardar? Don't worry about it, it's probably nothing" Radar operators supervisor to operator, Pearl Harbor Hawaii

 

[Jen Kirley]

"So you got burned. Now don't turn around and sit on the blister."

Anonymous (regarding relationships)

Jennifer

 

[Tom Slack]

I'll take reponsibility for this one:

"Quality First"; not just an empty slogan!

Tom

 

[WALLACE]

YOUR FIRED! (Donald Trump)Wallace.

 

[Greg B]

Change

Hi All,

These are my favourite sayings on 'Change'

‘Whosoever desires constant success must change with the times’
Niccoló Machiavelli (1469 – 1527)
Italian Statesman and Political Philosopher


‘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 there 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’
Niccoló Machiavelli (1469 – 1527)

‘Nothing endures but change’
Heraclitus (600 BC)

Greg B

 

[Bill Pflanz]

Oil Prices

With all the current media hype on oil supply and prices, this quote explains how it all got started:

"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're
crazy."
--Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill
for oil in 1859.

If only we had listened maybe the other energy sources would have taken off.

Bill

 

[Tim Folkerts]

This is actually about science, but the idea applies if you change "science" to "quality" or "Six Sigma", or SPC".

Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks, but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.
- Henri Poincare'

There can be a tendency to do lots of calculations and create lots of charts, but until you can put it together to see the "house" rather than the individual "bricks", you aren't getting as much as you should from the information.


Tim F