Wise words

Every now and again we find something someone has said or written that seems to resonate ... that sounds different from all the other noise. What do you think ?

“Excellence is not a singular act but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”
Aristotle

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
Albert Einstein

“In any moment of indecision the best you can do is the right thing - the worst you can do is nothing.”
Theodore Roosevelt

“More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them.”
Harold J. Smith

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

“ Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931)

“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

“It is unwise to pay too much, but it is worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money ... that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the things it was bought to do.

The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot ... it cannot be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run. And if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better.”
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

“Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.”
Lester R. Bittel, The Nine Master Keys of Management

“(Project) Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
 Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)

“There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.”
Francis Bacon (1625)