Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Peters

Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median - it's in the differences that occur throughout a population.

Tom Peters

Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.

Tom Peters

It's relatively simple. If we're not getting more, better, faster than they are getting more, better, faster, then we're getting less, no better or more worse.

Tom Robbins

If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when you think you are mastering them - it is nonetheless perpetually fascinating, frequently surprising, occasionally rewarding, and it comes already assembled. [...] Alas! the brain is a toy that plays games of its own. Its very most favorite game is the one-thing-leads-to-another game.

Tom Robbins

There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.

Tom Robbins

'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.

Tom Robbins

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Tom Robbins

Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

Tom Robbins

Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more.

Steve Jobs

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

Steve Jobs

Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves

Spiro T. Agnew

The era of appeasement must come to an end. The political and social demands that dissidents are making of the universities do not flow from sound basic educational criteria, but from strategic considerations on how to radicalize the student body, polarize the campus and extend the privileged enclaves of student power.

Sri Aurobindo

To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.

Rutherford B. Hayes

I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.

Rudolf Arnheim

A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.

Rupert Murdoch

You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.

Rush Limbaugh

I read my web blogs, my tech blogs, it's highly educational, folks.

Zig Ziglar

Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect's mind.