"Past experience, to the extent that it is a part of memory at all, is dismissed as the primitive refuge of those who do not have the insight to appreciate the incredible wonders the present."

JKGalbraith, A Short History of Financial Euphoria

"Quantity has a quality all of its own."

Josef Stalin, talking about Soviet tank production in WW2

"All Truth passes through three stages.  First, it is ridiculed.  Second, it is violently opposed.  Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"He who cannot change the fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality."

Anwar Sadat

"Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheque.  Your profession is what you are here on earth to do - with such passion and intensity it becomes spiritual in calling."

Vincent van Gogh

"The road to happiness lies in two simple principles.  Find what it is that interests you and that you can do well.  And when you find it, put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and ability that you have."

John D. Rockefeller III

"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."

Albert Einstein

"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."

-- Abraham Lincoln

"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."

-- Albert Einstein

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

-- George Santayana

"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience.  Take the experience first; the cash will come later."

-- Harold Geneen

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."

-- Henry Ford

"There are 7 things that will destroy us.  Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without character; Religion without sacrifice; Politics without principle; Science without humanity; Business without ethics."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"It is not the employer who pays the wages.  He only handles the money.  It is the product that pays the wages."

-- Henry Ford