"It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last"

“I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge.”

“If it were possible to take interest rates into negative territory I would be voting for that.”

Source : "Why Gold Is Unstoppable" by Doug French, www.caseyresearch.com. March 19, 2014.

“Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.”

Source : Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.164, Penguin

“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”

“Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.”

Source : Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.478, Penguin

“Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.”

Source : Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

“Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.”

Source : Republican National Convention Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

“Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.”

Source : Amin Maalouf (1998). “Samarkand”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated