quotes of day Thursday, August 20, 2026

“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

“Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.”

“Great and small suffer the same mishaps.”

“There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft mindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce soft minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.”

“Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.”

“Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.”

“History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.”

“love means to see the one you love happy”

“If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office.”

“Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.”

“A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.”

“Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.”

“We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement.”