Quotes

"I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When you are green, you're growing. When you're ripe, you rot."
-- Ray Kroc

"Think you can, think you can't; either way you'll be right."
-- Henry Ford

"When the going gets tough, the tough gets growing."

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
-- Jim Elliot

"It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working."
-- Philippe Petit

“If you don’t have the best people, you can’t be the best firm. But if you do have the best people and you train them rigorously, organize them effectively, and motivate them to do their best work consistently, you will inevitably become the best firm.”
-- John Whitehead, co-head of Goldman Sachs from 1976 to 1984

"...we failed because we did not even conceive of the possibility of failure."
Dr. Goh Keng Swee