Quotes About Wisdom

Nos adiestran durante demasiado tiempo en la estupidez y al final se nos convierte en una segunda naturaleza, decía Marcelo, me dice Renzi. Lo primero que pensamos siempre está mal, decía, es un reflejo condicionado. Hay que pensar en contra de sí mismo y vivir en tercera persona.

Un hombre que le cuenta a otro sus aventuras amorosas es un tarado, y si encima es el padre de uno, esa estupidez infantil se convierte en algo siniestro.

Después Tardewski volvió a hablar de esa cualidad destructiva, de esa rara lucidez que se adquiere cuando se ha conseguido fracasar lo suficiente. Porque otra de las virtudes del fracaso, dijo, es que nos enseña que nunca nada deja su huella en el mundo. Todo lo que hemos vivido se borra y eso quizás, dijo, es lo que había comprendido esa mujer en el cuento de Marconi.

What you are essentially advocating at Semco is harnessing the wisdom of people," a friend once told me. "Their reservoir of talent, the natural wisdom of the system, the wisdom that only comes from freedom, the wisdom that emerges however unevenly from democracy. Wisdom is what you get by asking why…." I wish I had said that first, but I didn't so I'll second it.

Semco's most precious asset is the wisdom of its workforce, and our success grows out of our employees' success.

The secret? If we have a cardinal strategy that forms the bedrock for all our practices, it may be this: Ask why. Ask it all the time, ask it any day, every day, and always ask it three times in a row.

At times, intuition can lead to mistakes, although maybe less often than numbers-based decision-making. We've made our share of intuitive mistakes at Semco. Life is full of mistakes. But you won't catch me subscribing to the new age management mantra—to err is human, but erring twice is not so hot. I don't buy the notion that we must carefully study our mistakes in order not to repeat them.

The best tycoons are like magicians: they know when to share information and when to withhold. - p141

The best tycoons are like magicians; they know when to share information and when to withhold.

Vrits numquam perit.

Nm nisi viti su miser est. (Seneca Ep. 8.70.15:

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Vvere est cgitre. (Cicero Tusc. 5.111.)

Suum cuique pulchrum est.

For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies.

What is, is what must be.

Wisdom is found on the desolate hillside... where none comes to feed, and the stony bank where the rabbit scratches a hole in vain.

Are you angry, El-ahrairah?' asked Lord Frith. "'No, my lord,' replied El-ahrairah, 'I am not angry. But I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

Silflay hraka, u embleer rah," replied Bigwig.

It's like a great mist of folly that covers the whole sky: and we shall never see to go by Frith's light any more. Oh, what will become of us? A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

El-ahrairah, tu pueblo no puede gobernar el mundo porque yo no lo he dispuesto así. Todo el mundo será tu enemigo, Príncipe con Mil Enemigos, y te matarán si te alcanzan. Pero antes tendrán que atraparte, a ti, que cavas y escuchas y corres, príncipe con la alarma presta. Sé astuto e ingenioso y tu pueblo nunca será destruido.

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There are lessons in life that we all have to experience for ourselves. There are other lessons that we can learn from others, lessons that spare us the pain and cost of experience.