'cos not everything
needs a TED talk

sharp insights from minds that shaped the world — and a few that history forgot to hype

31 August

When you innovate you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts.

Larry Ellison

30 August

Nothing is permanent except change.

Heraclitus

29 August

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

28 August

It’s better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Warren Buffet

27 August

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

John D. Rockefeller

26 August

It’s better to hang out with people better than you.

Warren Buffett

25 August

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Martin Heidegger

24 August

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on.

Sheryl Sandberg

23 August

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive but in finding something to live for.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

22 August

Human beings are members of a whole in creation of one essence and soul.

Saadi

21 August

What does not kill me makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

20 August

You cannot teach a man anything you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

19 August

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

18 August

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.

Vince Lombardi

17 August

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength.

Marcus Aurelius

16 August

Everyone who has taken a shower has had an idea. But it’s the people who get out of the shower, towel off, and do something about it that makes the difference.

Nolan Bunshell

15 August

Before you are a leader success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader success is all about growing others.

Jack Welch

14 August

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

William James

13 August

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi

12 August

There is a time for many words and there is also a time for sleep.

Homer