Arie de Geus famous quotes

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  • A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

  • It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

  • Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.

  • Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

  • I wanna be the best at what I do. I wanna sing, I wanna dance, I wanna act. That's about it.

  • Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.

  • The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.

  • Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.

  • If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

  • I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.