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