This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, it would be thoroughgoing training in the habit of observation. It is a habit which every one of us should be seeking ever more to perfect.
The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. Ordinarily, this means that any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.
Behavior | Industry | Means | Mediocrity | Plan | Policy | Success | Wisdom |
Whether a man accepts from fortune her spade and will look downward and dig, or from aspiration her axe and cord, and will scale the ice, the one and only success which it is his to command is to bring to his work a mighty heart.
Aspiration | Fortune | Heart | Man | Success | Will | Wisdom | Work | Aspiration |
Hubert Humphrey, fully Hubert Horatio Humphrey
We are the standard-bearers in the only really authentic revolution, the democratic revolution against tyrannies. Our strength is not to be measured by our military capacity alone, by our industry, or by our technology. We will be remembered, not for the power of our weapons, but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.
Capacity | Compassion | Dedication | Industry | Power | Revolution | Strength | Technology | Weapons | Will | Wisdom |
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
Important | Mind | Resolution | Success | Wisdom |
Leon Montenaeken, fully Louis Moreau Constant Corneille van Montenaeken
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Édouard Jules Henri Pailleron
Have success and there will always be fools to say that you have talent.
Business is founded on vision and confidence; success on industry and cooperation.
Business | Confidence | Cooperation | Industry | Success | Vision | Wisdom |