“History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.”

There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.

Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

Effectiveness must be learned.

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.

There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.

What’s measured improves.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.

Colonization took place in America and Australia, the two continents that, without a culture and a history of their own, had fallen into the hands of Europeans.

People without knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture are like a tree without roots.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. B.C. FORBES Founder of Forbes magazine

Nature has no history.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.