-- John Kenneth Gabraith
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often
been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be
right alone.
-- Indira Gandhi
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
-- Mohandas Gandhi
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my
comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in
depriving other human beings of that precious right.
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Mark Garcia
Steps are good, too many steps are bad. Elevators are better
-- Michael J. Gelb
Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are
eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses
and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean; geniuses swim, crazy people
drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.
Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an
order exceeding ten million to one. This data base is the source of you hidden, natural
genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people
regularly consult that smarter part.
Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who
are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.
Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only
feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.
Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.
Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.
A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.
-- David Lloyd George
Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
-- André Gide
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a
very long time.
-- George Gilder
Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.
--Arnold Glasow
One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it
becomes an emergency.
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
-- E.M. Glenn
If you want to piss with the big dogs, you'd better
learn to lift your leg first; otherwise you just might get pissed on.
-- Arthur Godfrey
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere
magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it
back to make haste for the next.
Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in
it.
-- Mikhail Gorbachev
Life punishes those who come too late
-- Al Gore
I took the initiative in creating the Internet
-- Senator Phil Gramm
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created
extraordinary results from plain ordinary people.
-- Kevin Grant
I would rather die fighting than fight dying.
-- Harry Gray
No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe.
-- Sidney Greenberg
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others
throw at him.
-- Geof Greenleaf
Class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you.
A man is measured by the size of things that anger him.
-- Robert Greenleaf
Good leaders must first become good servants.
-- Greek Proverb
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall
never sit in.
-- Wayne Gretzky
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
-- Matt Groening
When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to
be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
-- Sacha Guitry
The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
