Issue 156
- The best rules to form a young man, are,
to talk little,
to hear much,
to reflect alone upon what has passed in company,
to distrust one's own opinions,
and value others that deserve it.
- Hail thy brother's boat across,
and lo! thine own has reached the shore.
- Everything that is really great and inspiring is
created by the individual who can labour in freedom.
- If you pick the right people and give them
the opportunity to spread their wings and
put compensation as a carrier behind it,
you almost don't have to manage them.
- Humility does not mean
thinking less of yourself than of other people,
nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts.
It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.
- One of the greatest pains to human nature
is the pain of a new idea.
- In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
- The chief duty I long to accomplish great and noble tasks,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks
as though they were great and noble.
The world is moved along, not only by the
mighty shoves of its heroes, but also
by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
- When a person can no longer laugh at himself,
it is time for others to laugh at him.
- Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.