Words that have an impact on me and my work.
"Never underestimate the power of a simple tool."
– Craig Bruce
"Honesty is the best policy when there is money in it."
– Mark Twain
"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."
– Richard Bach
"Impossible is just an opinion."
– Paulo Coelho
"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."
– Mark Twain
"Simplicity is the essence of happiness."
– Cedric Bledsoe
"Design is not about what you see, but about what you don't see."
– Rob Janoff
"It always seems impossible until it's done."
– Nelson Mandela
"No one has ever become poor by giving."
– Anne Frank
"No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work."
– Hosea Ballou
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."
– Ernest Hemingway
"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
– Marthe Troly-Curtin
"How difficult it is to be simple."
– Vincent van Gogh
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."
– Henry Ford
"Happiness is very simple and minimal."
– Tablo
"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."
– Henry Ford
"They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing."
– Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
"The best advertising is done by satisfied customers."
– Philip Kotler
"Good design is as little design as possible."
– Dieter Rams
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
– Albert Einstein
"People forget how fast you did a job, they remember how well you did it."
– James Howard Newton
"Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful"
– Warren Buffet
"You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it."
– Edward Coke
"Design is so simple. That’s why it’s so complicated."
– Paul Rand
"Style is a simple way of saying very complicated things."
– Jean Cocteau
"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."
– Warren Buffett
"The richest persons are those who give most in service to others."
– Napoleon Hill
"The simplest things are often the truest."
– Richard Bach
"If you pay peanuts, you will get monkeys."
– English proverb
"The complex develops out of the simple."
– Colin Wilson
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
– Aristotle
"Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details."
– William Feather
"All human beings have three lives: public, private and secret."
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
– Confucius
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
– Steve Wozniak
"Observation is a dying art."
– Stanley Kubrick
"No man is a success in business unless he loves his work."
– Florence Scovel Shinn
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur."
– Red Adair
"If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed."
– Sylvia Plath
"He who doesn't trust enough, will not be trusted."
– Lao Tzu
"If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave."
– Mo Willems
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
– Confucius
"Quick fixes are not real fixes."
– Randy Milanovic
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Good work ain't cheap. Cheap work ain't good."
– Norman Keith Collins
"Beware of geeks bearing formulas."
– Warren Buffett
"I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business."
– Harvey Firestone
"Less is more."
– Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."
– Oscar Wilde
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
– Steve Jobs
"Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance."
– Coco Chanel
"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."
– Leo Tolstoy
"Thought, not money, is the real business capital."
– Harvey Firestone
"Quality is never an accident, it is always the result of intelligent effort."
– John Ruskin
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."
– Tom Brokaw
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
– Oscar Wilde
"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."
– Aristotle Onassis
"The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected."
– Julian Casablancas
"Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple."
– C.W. Ceram
"There is no more B2B or B2C: It’s Human to Human, H2H."
– Bryan Kramer
"Be Yourself. Everyone else is already taken."
– Oscar Wilde
"Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple."
– Woody Gutherie
"Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?"
– Sidney Madwed
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
– Alexander Pope
"A goal without a plan is just a wish."
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Never use a long word where a short one will do."
– George Orwell
"Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!"
– P. T. Barnum
"Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much."
– Sir Joshua Reynolds
"I simply do not distinguish between work and play."
– Mary Oliver
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
– Albert Einstein
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
– Marcus Aurelius
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
– Robin Williams
"Our heads are round so thought can change direction"
– Allen Ginsberg
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
– Leonardo da Vinci
"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify."
– Henry David Thoreau
"All lasting business is built on friendship"
– Alfred Montapert
"Like all magnificent things, it's very simple."
– Natalie Babbitt
"Good design should be honest."
– Ferdinand Porsche
"Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living within that way of life."
– Hunter S. Thompson
"In all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity."
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Anything simple always interests me."
– David Hockney
"Always take the high road, it's far less crowded."
– Warren Buffett
"Problems are the price you pay for progress."
– Branch Rickey
"Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not."
– Valery Satterwhite