Quotes
Quotes about Men
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds). [Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles Urguentur ignotique sacro.]
At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books.
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Flowery oratory he [Walpole] despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those men have their price."
There is thy gold--worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none Farewell. Buy food and get thyself in flesh.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
Come home to men's business and bosoms.
A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most who serves best," and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying. -B. F. Harris.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
