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