Austrian Quotes

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing at a time-and on doing first things firs.

For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication. ...Social ecologists need not be "great" writers; but they have to be respectful writers, caring writers.

No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

The basic economic resource - the means of production -is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor.It is and will be knowledge.

In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude.

I think that every job that you can save is important. Every job that you can create is very important and it should not be the number one reason why we invest in infrastructure to create jobs.

I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.

To go in the direction that I went takes a lot of work. And I don't think you can do the work - the five or six hours of working out a day - if you don't have a clear goal or know why you're doing it. If you just hang out at the gym and train for five or six hours a day without a goal is almost impossible.

It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.

No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive government; one has to consider government action on a sizable scale as desirable rather than as a necessary evil.

Decision making is the specific executive task.

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.

I'm sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three hundred years economy and sovereignty are becoming divorced from each other.

There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.

Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.

There's no such thing as knowledge management;there are only knowledgeable people.Information only becomes knowledgein the hands of someonewho knows what to do with it.

Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'

People are always making a fuss over my $15-20-million salaries. Believe me, the amount is meaningless once my wife, Maria, finds out about it. She's already spent half of my salary from Terminator 7!

[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.

Our most important education system is in the employees' own organization.

The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.

The knowledge we now consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information effective in action, information focused on results. Results are outside the person, in society and economy, or in the advancement of knowledge itself. To accomplish anything this knowledge has to be highly specialized.

Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.

All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.

Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.

And you know something, because everything that I've gotten - my career, my money, my family; everything that I've gotten and achieved is because of California.

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

Trust yourself,..dig deep down and ask yourself who you want to be? Not what, but who?

Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.

For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.

Within twenty years, he was the world's biggest movie star, the husband of Maria Shriver, and an emerging Republican leader who was part of the Kennedy family.

When I was playing soccer at the age of 14, the first thing we'd do before going out onto the field would be to climb up on one another's thighs and massage the legs; it was a regular thing. None of us had a thought of being gay, absolutely not, and it's the same with most bodybuilders.

To make a living is no longer enough. Work also has to make a life.

There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering.

Luck is for the ill-prepared.

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.

You act like a normal human being and you treat them [actors around] like a buddy because you're all working together. It's no different than being Governor. You put a team together and say, "Guys, we all want to shine here. We all want to show that this administration is going to do things that other administrations have thought was impossible. Let's kick some ass together."

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Communication is always "propaganda." The emitter always wants "to get something across."

The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channeling its powers positively for your purposes, you can do anything. I mean anything. The secret is to make your mind work for you not against you. This means constantly being positive. Constantly setting up challenges you can meet either today, next week, or next month. "I can't..." should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving.

I think one thing that is extremely important is to connect with people in order to be successful and bring the people in so that they become your partners.

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.

It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.

If you can go through the pain period, you make it to be a champion. If you can't go through it, forget it. And that's what most people lack: having the guts - the guts to go in and just say... "I don't care what happens"

The true business of every company is to make and keep customers.

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.