Tim Waterstone famous quotes

I believe that the mindset that allows you to spend your working life thanking and congratulating people rather than being unpleasant to them is the mainstay of good leadership.
-- Tim Waterstone

#Leadership #Believe #People

It's actually as simple as this. New authors, building their customer base, need physical bookshops. Physical bookshops are lovely tactile, friendly, expert, welcoming places. Physical books, which can only be seen and handled in physical bookshops, are lovely, tactile things. Destroy those bookshops, and the very commercial and cultural base to the book industry is destroyed. Once and for all. Like Humpty Dumpty, it can never be put together again.
-- Tim Waterstone

#Book #Simple #Lovely

Its intuition that works. Just intuition.""Waterstones was aimed at me. I knew that I wanted, and badly needed in my life, bookshops just like the ones I was creating. I simply assumed that plenty of other people, no doubt of wildly differing demographics, would find once they saw them that they wanted them too. Well - they did.
-- Tim Waterstone

#Success #Creating #People

Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do,
-- Tim Waterstone

#Lying #Grotesque

Ignore the received wisdom of any industry you’re entering. Never be trapped by dogma. Never let other people’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.
-- Tim Waterstone

#Voice #People #Entering

Its intuition that works. Just intuition.
-- Tim Waterstone

#Intuition

Whatever you are, be a good one.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.

I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.