Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Drucker

Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.

Peter Drucker

An employer has no business with a man's personality. The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

Peter Drucker

"The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on the basis of what a man can do. He does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength."

Peter Drucker

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

Peter Drucker

One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.

Peter Drucker

A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.

Per Petterson

One of my many horrors is to become the man with the frayed jacket and unfastened flies standing at the Co-op counter with egg on his shirt and more too because the mirror in the hall has given up the ghost. A shipwrecked man without an anchor in the world except in his own liquid thoughts where time has lost its sequence.

Penelope Tree

I think of the Sixties as being every man for himself.

Penelope Spheeris

When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.

Peer Steinbruck

You can't exactly bake a man to your specifications. Most of all, one shouldn't alienate a candidate. A hybrid of Einstein, Tarzan and Inge Meysel doesn't exist. Besides, the images of politicians in the media aren't always accurate. I've had my share of experiences in that regard.

Pee Wee Reese

Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were.

Peggy Noonan

when men in politics are together, testosterone poisoning makes them insane.

Peg Bracken

This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue illustration in a machine shop.

Peggy Noonan

Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money...

Paulo Coelho

Take these," said the old man, holding out a white stone and a black stone that had been embedded at the center of the breastplate. "They are called Urim and Thummim. The black signifies 'yes,' and the white 'no.' When you are unable to read the omens, they will help you to do so. Always ask an objective question.

Paulo Coelho

Physical elegance comes from the body. This is no superficial matter but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

Paulo Coelho

Even if you slept with every man on Earth, my love will still survive.

Paulo Coelho

Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others.

Paulo Coelho

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

Paulo Coelho

If there hadn't been a sixth day, man would not exist; copper would always be copper; and lead just lead. It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.

Paulo Coelho

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

Paulo Coelho

I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.

Paulo Coelho

But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.

Paulo Coelho

Charisma- the divine force that manifests itself in men and women. The supernatural power we don't need to show to anyone because everyone can see it, even usually insensitive people. But it only happens when we're naked, when we die to the world and are reborn to ourselves.

Paulo Coelho

Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.

Marlon Wayans

I got a man cave. I play my music loud. I bought big speakers because I need to hear music loud.

Marlo Thomas

I know George Burns was a very happy man.

Marlo Thomas

A feminist is a man or woman who already knows for a fact that men and women are qual and wants society to wake up to that fact, so the world can stop operating at half-strength.

Marlene Dietrich

The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime

Marlene Dietrich

What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.

Marlene Dietrich

For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think.

Marlene Dietrich

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

Marlene Dietrich

In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive