Showing posts with label Samuel Pepys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Samuel Pepys. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

The First Duddy in Life

DuddyImage by Senor Adventure via Flickr

In the multitude of counsellors there is safety. – Bible

A man that cannot sit still – and cannot say no – is not fit for businss. –Samuel Pepys

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself. – A. H. Weiler

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. – Theodore Roosevelt

Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many. – Publilius Syrus

It is much safer to be feared than to be loved, when you have to choose between the two. – Niccolo Machiavelli

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered. – Oscar Wilde


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