Austrian author quotes Quotes

“If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever.”

“Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.”

“I know now why you cry, but it's something I can never do.”

“You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.”

“I think it is important that we go and bring both of the parties together. The more we go to the left, the more we go to the right, I believe of what President Eisenhower said, "Politics is like the road. The left and the right represents the gutter, and the middle is drivable."”

“Through discipline, and determination one can change anything and everything about him - his habits, his outlook on life”

“The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.”

“His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.”

“There is a point at which a transformation has to take place.”

“Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.”

“Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.”

“Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!”

“If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling.”

“He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.”

“Paths are made by walking”

“If you're not living life on the edge, you're taking up too much space.The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

“There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .”

“Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: "I know what Anne [or John] is trying to do."”

“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”

“A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.”

“God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.”

“But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?”

“Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.”

“Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.”

“In a way, I was safe writing”

“I will not fail, I will not disappoint you, I will not let you down.”

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?”

“Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.”

“Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed.”

“What's fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.”

“I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.”

“No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.”

“You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.”

“Mentally it is possible to break records, once you understand that, you can do anything.”

“We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model .”

“Marketing is not only much broader than selling, it is not a specialized activity at all. It encompasses the entire business. It is the whole business seen from the point of view of its final result, that is, from the customer's point of view.”

“As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all.”

“Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.”

“What is written is merely the dregs of experience.”

“Luck never built a business. Prosperity and growth come only to the business that systematically finds and exploits its potential.”

“Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!”

“Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our motto seems to be, "Let's do a little bit of everything."”

“Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.”

“If you want to predict the future create it.”

“I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.”

“In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.”

“What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.”

“One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.”

“In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time - literally - substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.”

“They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong”