Cause of Human Unhappiness

All of human unhappiness comes from one single thing: not knowing how to remain at rest in a room. - Blaise Pascal

Key to Happiness - Marcus Aurelius

The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts. - Marcus Aurelius

Eccentricities

"Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you grow old, people won't think you are going ga-ga." - David Ogilvy

Brilliant Management Vs Bad Economics

"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact." - Warren Buffet

Human Potential - Heny David Thoreau

"What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring out what is within out into the world, miracles happen." - Henry David Thoreau

The Unreasonable Man - George Bernard Shaw

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

Warren Buffet on Integrity

In evaluating people, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. If you don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

Source: The Warren Buffet Way

Globalization

Got this particular quote while reading "World is flat" by Tom Freidman. This is one of the best books on the topic of Globalization.

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better start running."

Theodore Levitt on Data

Data do not yield information except with the intervention of the mind. Information does not yield meaning except with the intervention of imagination.

- Theodore Levitt

Deming on Performance Measurement

What gets measured gets done.

Edward Deming

Memorable Quote by Peter Drucker

Here's a memorable quote by the Father of Modern Management:

"There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all."

- Classic Drucker