"Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously."

“Envy was just the tax you paid on success.”

Source : David Nicholls (2011). “One Day”, p.172, Hachette UK

“I have a theory that among the large Western companies (mostly American) the higher an executive is promoted, the more wisdom is lost and by the time he or she reaches the top becomes a complete idiot. Certainly they do not deserve the outrageous salary.”

Source : Source: blog.deming.org

“No matter how many lawyers and lawsuits Obama throws at Arizona, we will have the American people and the Constitution on our side.”

“Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.”

“I think I was always going to be an Everton player from the day I was born. There is a certain type of player who is an Everton player”

“Ideally, you will develop strategic response to your place in the corporate lifecycle to identify new paths of strategic renewal. You will look for new growth curves that can be started early enough to replace declining products and you will try to identify whole new curves that will take the organisation to new levels of growth as a whole.”

Source : Max Mckeown (2013). “The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results”, p.125, Pearson UK

“My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.”

“Certainly professionally, yes [I was interested more in history]. And literary criticism, the structure of poetry. But it is primarily as a historian that I work, although text criticism and literary criticism are very much a part of my interests.”