1000 Great Quotations for Business, Management & Training

1000 Great Quotations for Business, Management & Training  by David Williams

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Например, ключевое слово 

Achievement

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet (1475-1564)

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryant, US statesman (1860-1925)

You cannot do anything better in this life than run your own perfect race.

Roger Black, British athlete (b.1966)

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

Martina Navratilova, Czech/US tennis player (b.1956)

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot, British author, economist (1826-1877)

Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were done.

Louis Brandeis, US supreme court justice (1856-1941)

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer (1919-2008)

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

Harry Lime, character in ‘The Third Man’ by Graham Greene (1904-1991)

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin, British author, art critic (1819-1900)

Too low they build who build beneath the stars.

Edward Young, British poet, dramatist, literary critic (1683-1765)

Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

Doug Larson, US marketeer, author (b.1926)

ABOUT THE AUTHOUR

For many years David Williams trained and facilitated groups across the UK, becoming well known for his dynamic methods of enrolling and involving seminar participants, learning groups, workshop and conference audiences. In recent years he has focused particularly on coaching other facilitators in partnership working and how to engage with groups.

He has worked with some of the world’s best-known platform speakers such as Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tom Peters, Warren Bennis and Benjamin Zander. His pioneering work on promoting best practice in the North of England, involving over 3,000 individuals and organizations, received widespread recognition. It featured in the MCA Business Book of the Year Becoming World Class by Clive Morton and in Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s book, World Class.

David has worked with many organizations and partnerships in the public, private and voluntary sectors. He has helped establish regional business and community development programmes, and strategic programmes using a creative teamwork approach across individual organizations. He has worked with local authorities and partnership groups far and wide on partnership working and all aspects of soft skills, communication, relationships and strategy.

David has written and produced a wealth of material for publications, video, audio, TV and radio broadcasting, including the critically acclaimed motivational video Benjamin Zander: Conducting Business. His work on networking was featured in the BBC video series Biz Vision. He is the author and producer of Spectrum, an interactive CD-ROM for trainers and facilitators and Partnership Works, an interactive CD-ROM for partnership enablers and groups.

Contents

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Contents

Ability

Achievement

Action

Advertising

Age

Attitude

Beginnings

Brevity

Bureaucracy

Change

Change Agents

Collaboration

Commitment

Communication

Competition

Computers

Continuous Improvement

Contribution

Control

Courage

Creativity

Criticism

Curiosity

Customers

Discovery

Doubt

Dreams

Education

Empowerment

Encouragement

Enthusiasm

Environment

Excellence

Facilitation

Facts

Failure

Focus

Fun

Future

Genius

Habit

Ideas

Images

Imagination

Imitation

Individuality

Innovation

Integrity

Internet

Involvement

Journeys

Knowledge

Leadership

Learning

Listening

Measurement

Media

Mediocrity

Meetings

Mistakes

Motivation

Opportunity

Pace

Paperwork

Passion

Planning

Possibility

Power

Predictions

Presentation

Problems

Profits

Public Relations

Quality

Questions

Recognition

Reflection

Relationships

Resistance

Risk

Role Models

Rules

Self-Confidence

Selling

Size

Success

Teamwork

Technology

Thinking

Time

Trust

Value

Vision

Voice

Winning

Wisdom

Working