Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Drucker

Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.

Peter Drucker

[Entrepreneurship] is by no means hunch or gamble. But it also is not precisely science. Rather, it is judgment.

Peter Drucker

Morale in an organization does not mean that “people get along together”; the test is performance not conformance.

Peter Drucker

The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.

Penelope Leach

Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.

Penn Jillette

I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with a wave of hand.

Penn Jillette

Cars mean nothing to me. I'm not a car guy.

Penn Jillette

How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do.

Penn Jillette

The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means.

Penn Jillette

Everyone's goals are the same with very small differences. I mean, the goal of a socialist and the goal of a libertarian are exactly the same. The goals are happiness and security and freedom, and you balance those.

Peggy Fleming

We Wanted to be Achievers, But Being an Achievers didn't Mean That You Stopped Being a Woman.

Paulo Coelho

But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime. I remarried. I'm very happy with my new wife, and I can't imagine living without her. This, however, doesn't mean that I have to renounce all my past experiences, as long as I'm careful not to compare my two lives. You can't measure love the way you can the length of a road or the height of a building.

Paulo Coelho

The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the great magical union is created, and its name is wisdom. Wisdom means both to know and to transform.

Paulo Coelho

I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.

Paulo Coelho

Worshiping someone means...placing that person outside of our world. We are not worshiping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with Creation.

Paulo Coelho

Love means sharing the world with someone else.

Paulo Coelho

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

Paulo Coelho

There's no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment. It's time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom, which has grown corrupted by routine. Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won't learn anything new that way.

Marnie Stern

When you're a solo artist and you have a band on tour you have to pay the band some salary. You don't realise the expenses, the way they add up SO quickly. But thank god I'm not a money person. So it doesn't really bug me at all, I mean it's more comical to me...

Marnie Stern

You like some things, you don't like others. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the others, it just means you have an opinion.

Marnie Stern

There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player.

Marlee Matlin

It seems we're always in transition and that it's more about trends than it is about what's meaningful.

Marlon Brando

I only mean forty per cent of what I say.

Mariska Hargitay

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.

Marjane Satrapi

I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.

Marjane Satrapi

Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.

Marjane Satrapi

Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine

Mariano Rivera

Because I have a little bit more, that means I'm better than you? No. Unacceptable.

Maria Sharapova

If I'm nervous, it means I had to work hard to get there, whether it's playing in a tournament or speaking at an event. So I try to stop and be proud of getting to live in that moment.

Maria Sharapova

I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.

Meghan Trainor

I dont consider myself a feminist, but Im down for my first opportunity to say something to the world to be so meaningful. If you asked me, What do you want to say? it would be, Love yourself more.

Meghan Trainor

Owning your curves means being confident - actually being confident - in your own skin.