Quote Collection
My Quote Collection
I love quotes — here's the full collection, 100 of them, that have stayed with me over the years.
„It's not the big that eat the small, but the fast that eat the slow.“
— Heinz-Peter Halek
„That a single person is sometimes enough to drag an entire nation through the shit belongs among the mysteries of mass communication.“
— Erwin Koch
„You practice and you get better. It's very simple.“
— Philipp Glass
„When someone says "That's not possible," remember: those are their limits. Not yours!“
— Unbekannt
„If you want to test a man's character, give him power.“
— Abraham Lincoln
„If there weren't people who actually achieved something, many would have nothing to complain about.“
— Emil Baschnonga
„I'd rather be able to do more than I do, than to do more than I'm able to.“
— Bertolt Brecht, 1898–1956; deutscher Dramatiker, Lyriker
„You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.“
— Warren E. Buffett, *1930; US-Investor
„We speak of leisure activity; it would be more accurate to call it leisure passivity.“
— Erich Fromm, 1900–80; deutsch-amerikanischer Psychoanalytiker, Philosoph, Sozialpsychologe
„Small deeds carried out are better than great deeds merely planned.“
— Georges Marshall
„The man who says it cannot be done should not stand in the way of the one who is doing it.“
— Chinesischer Spruch
„The reason great work is so hard to accomplish is the clamor of the crowd.“
— Frühling und Herbst des Lü Bu We
„Where there is content, the forms fall into place by themselves.“
— Lew Nikolajewitsch Tolstoj, 1828–1910; russischer Schriftsteller — Tagebücher, 1896
„A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.“
— Unbekannt
„Business is nothing more than a tangle of human relationships.“
— Lee Iacocca, *1924; US-Industriemanager (Ford, Retter von Chrysler ab 1978)
„The greatest risk on earth is run by those who are never willing to take the smallest one.“
— Bertrand Russell, 1872–1970; britischer Mathematiker und Philosoph
„Never bet on a loser just because you think he's due for a little luck.“
— Las Vegas Law
„To solve a problem means to free yourself from it.“
— Goethe
„There are old pilots and there are bold pilots. But there are no old, bold pilots.“
— André Kostolany
„There are employees who pull the cart. Then there are employees who walk alongside it. And then there are employees who sit on the cart — or even put on the brakes.“
— Unbekannt
„To be interesting, be interested.“
— Dale Carnegie
„The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.“
— Napoleon Hill
„It matters not how many fish are in the sea … if you don't have any bait on your hook.“
— Dial West, US-Telefongesellschaft
„Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.“
— Philip Kotler, *1931
„Information is the currency of democracy.“
— Thomas Jefferson, 1743–1826; 3. Präsident der USA
„To stay ahead of the competition, you must not merely satisfy your customers — you have to delight them with what you deliver.“
— Philip Kotler, *1931
„You can only inspire people or win their support if the company they commit to has soul.“
— Unbekannt
„If you cannot measure it, you cannot control it. If you cannot control it, you cannot manage it. If you cannot manage it, you cannot improve it.“
— Unbekannt
„The most successful person is not the most skilled, the best-looking, or the fastest — it's always the most passionate.“
— Unbekannt
„I want nothing to do with a wisdom that knows no tears, a philosophy that cannot laugh, and a greatness that does not bow before children.“
— Khalil Gibran
„A kind word costs nothing, and yet it is the finest of all gifts.“
— Daphne du Maurier, 1907–1989; englische Schriftstellerin
„Everyone makes mistakes. The trick is to make them when no one is watching.“
— Peter Ustinov, 1921–2004; englischer Schriftsteller und Schauspieler
„True satisfaction is rarely found through sex, but always through the certainty of having made another person happy.“
— Unbekannt
„It is more important to make other people happy than to seek happiness through them.“
— Unbekannt
„I come in two states: creative and crazy, or tender. Tender is easier to bear — but luckily, that's not very often.“
— Unbekannt
„If the good do not fight, the bad will win.“
— Platon
„A naked person, as such, is first and foremost simply a beautiful thing. It only becomes indecent through the thoughts of the beholder.“
— Unbekannt
„Man is the only creature endowed with reason. Yet no other creature would ever act so unreasonably.“
— Unbekannt
„Only those who engage actively with the media are superior to them.“
— Unbekannt
„The head is round so that thinking can change direction.“
— Unbekannt
„Only our partners' success is truly our own success.“
— Unbekannt
„Whoever lacks the courage to dream lacks the strength to fight.“
— Unbekannt
„You don't wait for the future — you go out to meet it.“
— Tullio Colsalvatico
„Whoever always walks in others' footsteps leaves no tracks of their own.“
— Unbekannt
„Falling down is no disgrace — staying down is.“
— Unbekannt
„As soon as someone has become a master at one thing, they should become a student of something new.“
— Gerhard Hauptmann
„Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.“
— Henry van Dyke
„Freedom means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.“
— George Bernard Shaw
„Rich is the one whose soul, heart, and mind hold more dreams than reality can destroy.“
— Unbekannt
„It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.“
— Seneca
„Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human being left.“
— Aldous Huxley
„I would rather live in a world full of mysteries than in one so small that my mind could grasp it.“
— Jean Giono
„Fear not that your life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.“
— Kardinal Newman
„Live as you would wish you had lived, when your time comes to die.“
— Unbekannt
„Some people live so cautiously that they die almost unused.“
— Michael Richter
„Only those who grow up and still remain a child are truly human.“
— Erich Kästner
„Men of power don't do much for me. I'd rather have a plumber with no power at all, who comes home reliably every night.“
— Betty Ford
„In every company there are people who work for the firm, and others who just work pro forma.“
— Unbekannt
„The supreme rule: a sale that does the customer no good does the salesman harm.“
— Heinz M. Goldmann
„Don't blame the mirror.“
— Gergely Hernady
„And even if you have the strength to move a mountain, you still need a mind as vast and as calm as an ocean.“
— Chinesischer Sinnspruch
„Knowledge that doesn't grow every day shrinks.“
— Chinesische Weisheit
„Love is the decision to affirm a person as a whole, whatever the details may be.“
— Otto Flake
„Man lives through passion; through reason, he merely exists.“
— Unbekannt
„True wisdom in life lies in seeing the wonderful in the everyday.“
— Unbekannt
„Loyalty cannot be demanded or requested. Loyalty is a gift.“
— Unbekannt
„The drama of every age has really had only one theme: people's inability to live with one another.“
— Gerhard Bronner
„Being strong without being hard isn't just an art — it's acrobatics.“
— Unbekannt
„If something truly matters to you, you have to set it free. If it comes back to you on its own, you'll know it was always yours. If it doesn't, it was never yours to begin with.“
— Unbekannt
„Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I need it most.“
— Unbekannt
„A single drop of love is worth more than an ocean of reason.“
— Blaise Pascal
„It is not enough to do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.“
— Winston Churchill
„Once you have forgiven someone everything, you are finished with them.“
— Sigmund Freud
„Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.“
— Robert Lee Frost
„Love is something special. You shouldn't take advantage of it, but take care of it, so you don't lose it.“
— Unbekannt
„One waits for time to change; the other takes hold of it firmly and acts.“
— Dante Alighieri
„Chaos wants to be acknowledged, wants to be lived, before it can be brought into a new order.“
— Hermann Hesse
„You cannot teach people anything; you can only help them find it within themselves.“
— Galileo Galilei
„The more methodically a person proceeds, the more effectively chance is able to strike them.“
— Friedrich Dürrenmatt
„The secret of success is the ability to understand the other person's point of view.“
— Henry Ford
„The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, the kindly smile, or the joy of companionship; it is the noble feeling of having someone who believes in you.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Every project increases our competence.“
— Unbekannt
„Even if comparisons are imperfect, it is still a fair question how meaningful it is to measure people — hired for entirely different tasks and paid for entirely different achievements — against one uniform standard.“
— Unbekannt
„Trying to establish cross-functional comparability is eerily reminiscent of that cartoon in which a fish, a monkey, an elephant, and other animals are subjected to an "objective performance test": "The task is the same for everyone: climb that tree!"“
— Unbekannt
„Someone said to the stones, "Be human." The stones answered: We are not yet hard enough.“
— Erich Fried
„Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.“
— Unbekannt
„There's an old saying about how long a piece of writing should be: like a woman's skirt – long enough to cover the important stuff, but short enough to still be interesting.“
— Unbekannt
„Instead of complaining that we don't have everything we want, we should be grateful that we don't get everything we deserve.“
— Dieter Hildebrandt, dt. Kabarettist, *1927
„The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to take the stairs, one step at a time.“
— Unbekannt
„A mistake is like manure. It certainly stinks, but it also speeds up growth.“
— Unbekannt
„Only fools try to impress the smart ones. Smart people just do what they do.“
— Unbekannt
„The slowest person, so long as they never lose sight of their goal, still moves faster than the one wandering aimlessly without one.“
— Unbekannt
„If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.“
— Unbekannt
„The grass doesn't grow any faster just because you pull on it.“
— Unbekannt
„Cold water doesn't get any warmer if you jump in later.“
— Unbekannt
„Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn — if the day isn't your friend, it's your teacher.“
— Unbekannt
„Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.“
— Josh Billings
„Structure creates freedom — in business, in parenting, and in the dojo.“
— Mario Körbler
„You shouldn't just watch the future unfold — you have to actively go out and meet it.“
— Mario Körbler
„Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.“
— Jim Rohn