1. 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

2. 2 Merchants > God St. Jerome  A merchant can seldom if ever please God.

3. 2 Business = Evil St. Augustine  Business is in itself evil.

4. 2 Nobly / Living Rousseau  It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

5. 2 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.

6. 2 Work sitting down Ogden Nash  People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

7. 2 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.

8. 2 Difficult to work Peter Drucker  So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

9. 2 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.

10. 2 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.

11. 2 Prize: work hard Teddy Roosevelt  Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

12. 2 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.

13. 2 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.

14. 2 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.

15. 2 Stop work Leo Tolstoy  In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

16. 2 Pleasure in job Aristotle  Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

17. 2 Time to play John Cleese  If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

18. 2 Nothing without hard work Horace  Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

19. 2 Quotes 6 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.

20. 2 Quotes 6 Tao Te Ching  In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy.

21. 2 Quotes 6 Stanley C. Gault  We don't work for each other, We work with each other.

22. 2 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

23. 2 Quiet Leadership When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally. Lao Tse

24. 2 Network of Mutuality Martin Luther King Jr.  All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

25. 2 Limiting Gov’t Power The limitation of governmental power means the enslavement of the people by the great corporations  Teddy Roosevelt

26. 2 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.

27. 2 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.

28. 2 Practice vs Theory French management saying  It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.

29. 2 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.

30. 2 Quality not quantity Gandhi  It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

31. 2 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.

32. 2 Quotes 10 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.

33. 2 Quotes 11 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.

34. 2 Quotes 11 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.

35. 2 Quotes 12 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”.

36. 2 Quotes 13 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.

37. 2 Quotes 14 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.

38. 2 Quotes 15 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?

39. 2 Quotes 16 Samuel Gompers  The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. United Nations report Women 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.

40. 2 Quotes 17 Benjamin 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.

41. 2 Quotes 18 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.

42. 2 Doors of perception William Blake  When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite.

43. 2 Perception -> Character Ralph Waldo Emerson  Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

44. 2 Quotes 20 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.

45. 2 Quotes 20 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.

46. 2 Quotes 21 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.

47. 2 Quotes 22 Carl Jung Creative 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

48. 2 Quotes 22 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.

49. 2 Quotes 23 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.

50. 2 Quotes 24 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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52. 2 Quotes 26 A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. Wilson MiznerWilson 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 GuinonAlbert Guinon (1863 - 1923) No man ever listened himself out of a job. Calvin CoolidgeCalvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)

53. 2 Quotes 27 As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things. Po Bronson

54. 2 Assault Not Leadership You do not lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not leadership. Dwight D. EisenhowerDwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)

55. 2 Leadership Not Words Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. Harold Geneen, Founder, MCI Communications

56. 2 Leadership = Backbone The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. Elaine Agather

57. 2 Management <> Leadership Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Peter Drucker

58. 2 Heat vs. Light John Morley in an 1884 essay that Carlyle is “all heat and no light” who “exhorts a reader to look into his own soul without supplying a practical key by which he might read what he 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.

59. 2 Change If you want to make enemies, try to change something. Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson