. . . it is business that can exercise the fastest degree of change by seeing the opportunity rather than the threat
Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.
The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.
Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.
If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion
Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.
Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.
He that comes to Christ cannot, it is true, always get on as fast as he would. Poor coming soul, thou art like the man that would ride full gallop whose horse will hardly trot. Now the desire of his mind is not to be judged of by the slow pace of the dull jade he rides on, but by the hitching and kicking and spurring as he sits on his back. Thy flesh is like this dull jade, it will not gallop after Christ, it will be backward though thy soul and heaven lie at stake.
Maintaining patience, being generous, and helping your peers takes time, and no small amount of emotional fortitude. But it brings an exponential difference in your team's ability to problem-solve.
The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is. . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable. . . the food we eat, the cramped apartments. . . the crowded subways. . . . American life, in large cities, at any rate, is a perpetual assault of the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.
Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep them in order. The ancients did well, therefore, to invent gods, and the belief in punishment after death.