Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.

Charles Spurgeon

Trust in God alone, and lean not on the needs of human help. Be not surprised when friends fail you; it is a failing world. Never reckon upon immutability in man: inconstancy you may reckon upon without fear of disappointment.

Charles Spurgeon

Trust in the person's promise who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

Alan Watts

If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed

Alan Perlis

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.

Chloe Sevigny

I love cleaning the house. I'd never have a cleaner - I wouldn't trust them to do it.

Bill Gates

Your customers get better when you do.

Edgar Mitchell

If we don't take care of our customers, someone else will.

Ron Kaufman

If it's not impossible, you may as well try. If it is impossible, at least you'll find out why.

Debbi Fields

The principle was right there - you couldn't miss it. The more we did for our customers, the more they did for us.

Ron Kaufman

What you want to be defines what you become.

Ron Kaufman

If you haven't given them your trust, you haven't given them enough.

Ron Kaufman

Always trust people and they may let you down. Always distrust people and you have let them down.

Ron Kaufman

Are you doing only what you must or doing all you can?

Ron Kaufman

Are people being the least you expect of them, or the best they expect themselves to be?

Charles Stross

I'm an individual. I do not want to get into a pissing match with an organization that is a de-facto gigadollar-turnover multinational!

Alan Ball

It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?

Chris Alexander

The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization.

Dee Hock

It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.

Dee Hock

An organization's success has more to do with clarity of shared purpose, common principles and strength of belief in them than to assets, expertise, operating ability or management competence, important as they may be.

Dee Hock

What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.

Dee Hock

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

Benjamin Spock

Democracy appears to me potentially a higher form of political organization than any kind of dictatorship. But if it turns out that in America, which could afford a decent living for everyone, the comfortable majority is willing to condone the misery and abuse of a minority for an indefinite period, the exploitation by the majority becomes as repugnant as exploitation by an oligarchy, and democracy loses half its supposed superiority.

Charlie Crist

Any person, institution or organization that conveys bodies or parts of bodies into or out of the state for medical education or research purposes shall notify the Anatomical Board of such intent and receive approval from the board.