Author Quotes

754 quotes in this collection

"Peace begins when desires are controlled."

-- Premananda Maharaj

"The path of devotion is the path of peace."

-- Premananda Maharaj

"Serve others without expecting anything in return."

-- Premananda Maharaj

"True happiness is in the soul."

-- Premananda Maharaj

"Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"The greed for fruit misses the flower."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates."

-- Steve Jobs

"Computers are like a bicycle for our minds."

-- Steve Jobs

"I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done."

-- Steve Jobs

"Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?"

-- Steve Jobs

"You have to believe in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever."

-- Steve Jobs

"Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do."

-- Steve Jobs

"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith."

-- Steve Jobs

"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

-- Steve Jobs

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."

-- Steve Jobs

"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself."

-- Leo Tolstoy

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The spirit of performance is not a machine. It is a vision."

-- Peter Drucker

"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."

-- Peter Drucker

"Management by objective works if you first think through your objectives."

-- Peter Drucker

"Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity."

-- Peter Drucker

"Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society."

-- Peter Drucker

"The most valuable asset of a 21st-century institution will be its knowledge workers and their productivity."

-- Peter Drucker

"Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right."

-- Peter Drucker
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