We are often asked if we have any quotes to help with presentations and papers. Here is a dozen to get you started
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“Small opportunities are often the beginning of Great Enterprises”
Demosthenes
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“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation…..We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit”
Aristotle
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“Continuous Improvement is better than delayed perfection”
Mark Twain
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“The ideal organisation, and the one with the best chance of success, is one where if you ask anyone, from the chairman down to the newest recruit on the shop floor, what is the business trying to do, you would get the same answer”.
Sir John Harvey Jones
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“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing”.
Albert Schweitzer
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“We must plan for the future, because people who stay in the present will remain in the past”.
Abraham Lincoln
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“A fool only learns from his own mistakes, an expert learns from others”.
Otto Von Bismark
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“We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising. A wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation”.
Gaius Petronius Roman author 70 AD
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“All I had to do was focus”.
Linford Christie
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“Whatever you can do, or dream you can…..begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it”.
Goethe
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“It’s not the strongest or the fittest that survive but the most adaptable”.
Charles Darwin
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“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm”.
Ralph Waldo Emerson