Quotes for Management Students (found in Research Textbook) Part 4

He uses statistics as a drunken man use as lamppost – for support rather than illumination – Andrew Lang

The thing we do is to supply light – Woodrow Wilson

 [A/N : umm, dun drink]

What we use depends mainly on what we look for – Sir John Lubbock

You got to be careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there – Yogi Berra

[A/N : It is what it is. Don't complain]

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world not in the closet – Lord Chesterfield

Forecasting is like trying to drive a car blindfolded and following directions given by a person who is looking out the back window – Anonymous

[A/N : I guess, come out of a closet and drive properly? I can't even drive. LOL]

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital – Aaron Levenstein

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple – S. Gudder

 [A/N : Girls (wears bikini) are complicated (like maths) yes, my logic]

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way – Booker T. Washington

The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance – Percy Bysshe Shelley

 [A/N : doesn't matter, I love those quotes]

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong – Sophocles

The covers of this book are too far apart – Ambrose Bierce

[A/N : Do I mention I love those quotes? Yes, I do. A Lot, more than A Lot] 

Quotes for Management Students (found in Research Textbook) Part 3

“‘How am I going to get in?’ asked Alice. ‘Are you going to get in at all?’ said the Footman, ‘That’s the first question, you know.’” – Lewis Carroll

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There’s no cure for curiosity – Dorothy Parker

 [A/N : Please don't be curious like Alice or you will get lost \wink\]

The longer the title, the less important the job – George McGovern

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows – O. Henry

[A/N : No comment...]

When you can measure what you are talking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it – William Thompson

All that we do is done with an eye to something else – Aristotle

It is a luxury to be understood – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 [A/N : Can I just say something? I dun have that luxury of understanding]

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler – Albert Einstein

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in – Henry David Thoreau [A/N : YAY! I understand words of Einstein. NAY! I dun get Henry DT]

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts – Herbert Spencer

Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn’t it? – Luigi Pirandello

[A/N : It might get a little personal. But I like to put what I like best at the end. ;)]

Here is Part 4

Quotes for Management Students (found in Research Textbook) Part 2

I never predict. I just look out the window and see what is visible – but not yet seen – Peter Drucker

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants – Isaac Newton

[A/N : It is to go against our human nature, we all like to assume, don't we?]

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind – Louis Pasteur

Practice is the best of all instructors – Publius Syrus

 [A/N : So, be prepared. The story of ghosts is going to be true. Just kidding, everyone is prepared for some levels. But some just doesn't]

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them – Mark Twain

What would you rather believe? What I say or what you saw with your own eyes? – Groucho Marx

 [A/N : I'd love to read if it's not literature. And I am going to believe my own eyes with my intellect and I am going to trust someone's words with high trustworthy level and again, using my intellect only]

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted – Albert Einstein

 [A/N : If you don't get it with only first time reading, and trying to under it's meaning by reading 2nd or 3rd time, YAY! Join me! You & Me can't understand Einstein]

Necessity, mother of invention – William Wycherley

My tastes are very simple. I only want the best – Oscar Wilde

 [A/N : The best quotes! Now you can figure me out, I put what I like best in the end]

Here is Part 3

Quotes for Management Students (found in Research Textbook) Part 1

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows – Aristotle Onassis

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody – Bill Cosby

[A/N : So, it wanna say "know who you should please". Well, at least I think so. LOLXD]

There is nothing as so practical as a good theory – Kurt Lewin

It facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts – Benedict Spinoza

Theories are nets cast to catch what we call “the world”: to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We endeavor to make the mesh ever finer and finer – KARL R. POPPER 

[A/N : I believe that we should make good theories. Or new generations will change our not-good-enough theories to fit into their facts] 

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one – Albert Einstein

Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it – Karl Popper

[A/N : No comment. Who am I to comment on Albert Einstein?]

The real voyage of discovery consist s not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes – Marcel Proust

A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world – George Santayana

[A/N : Open your eyes people. See the world. Woman or man, we have to look if we want to see]

To manage a business is to manage its future; and to manage the future is to manage information – Marion Harper

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago – Warren Buffett

[A/N : Point well made! I love those quotes]

Here is Part II