Advice, James M. Burns

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

- James M. Burns

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“Treat others as you would like to be treated” is the golden rule in the business world. People are more motivated by respect from others, opportunities for a diverse work experience, and self-development than material benefits. But the most important motivator by far is receiving respect from others. Therefore, true devotion and sacrifice cannot be faked- it has to come from the heart.

Family, Book of Proverbs

Better a dry crust with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.

+ Book of Proverbs 17, 1

[17:1] A “better than” saying, stating the circumstances when a dry crust is better than a banquet. Peace and fellowship give joy to a meal, not the richness of the food. For a similar thought, see 15:16 and 16:8.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible/
http://www.usccb.org/bible/proverbs/17

Joke, Eve Myles as Gwen from Torchwood

Martha: Jack's right. These attacks are not random. They're clinical, professional. More like assassinations.
Gwen: Except Barry Leonard was a student. Who'd assassinate a student?
Martha: Student loans company?
Gwen: Yeah, I think you just cracked it.
[They both laugh.]

- Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper from Torchwood, Reset [2.6]

War, The Art of War (孫子)

兵者，詭道也。故能而示之不能，用而示之不用，近而示之遠，遠而示之近。

- 孫子

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Common examples can also be found in English use, such as verse 18 in Chapter 1. This has been abbreviated to its most basic form and condensed into the English modern proverb:

All warfare is based on deception.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War

Self-confidence, Charlie Chaplin

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

- Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)

Advice, Frank Quintero

Do The Right Thing!

- Frank Quintero, Glendale mayor

To the Japanese Government (2013.04.14)

Dokdo, Islander

I like Japanese anime and manga so much. However, I have no choice but to say "No Takeshima, but Dokdo," because truth is truth.

- Islander

Stock, Wall Street

Stocks always look worst at the bottom of a bear market and always look best at the top of a bull market.

- Wall Street

Do not underestimate of courage it takes to act on your beliefs.

Banking System, Richard Ramsden

You can construct a banking system in which no bank will ever fail, in which there's no leverage. But there would be a cost. There would be virtually no economic growth because there would be no credit creation.

- Richard Ramsden of Goldman Sachs, 2010

Name, Basque Proverb

Aberats izatea baino, izen ona hobe.
Translation: It's better to have a good name than to be rich.

- Basque Proverb

The Basque language (called Euskara by the Basque language speakers or Basques themselves) is the oldest language in Europe, the only non Indo-European language that survived after the administration of the Roman Empire spread throughout our continent. It is spoken by about one million people in the seven provinces of the Euskal Herria, that is, in North East Spain and South West France. No relationship between Basque and any other language has been established with certainty. The alphabet used for Basque employs Roman letters. The first printed book in Basque appeared in the 16th century. Basque is both agglutinative and polysynthetic.

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English equivalent

¶ A good name is the best treasure.

Advice to Presbyters, The First Letter of Peter

Advice to Presbyters.

Tend the flock of God in your midst, [overseeing] not by constraint but willingly, as God would have it, not for shameful profit but eagerly. Do not lord it over those assigned to you, but be examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.

+ 1 Peter 5,2-4

http://www.usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible/
http://www.usccb.org/bible/1peter/5

Hero, Natasha Romanoff from Avengers (2012)

Clint Barton: [Natasha has freed him from his restraints] Tasha, how many agents did I-?
Natasha Romanoff: Don't. Don't do that to yourself, Clint. This is Loki. This is monsters and magic and nothing we were ever trained for.
Clint Barton: Loki, he got away?
Natasha Romanoff: Yeah. Don't suppose you know where?
Clint Barton: [Shakes head] Didn't need to know. Didn't ask. He's gonna make his play soon though. Today.
Natasha Romanoff: We gotta stop him.
Clint Barton: Yeah, who's "we"?
Natasha Romanoff: [Shrugs] I don't know. Whoever's left.
Clint Barton: Well, I... if I put an arrow through Loki's eye socket, I'd sleep better, I s'pose.
Natasha Romanoff: Now you sound like you.
Clint Barton: But you don't. You're a spy, not a soldier. Now you want to wade into a war. Why? What did Loki do to you?
Natasha Romanoff: He didn't, I just...
[pauses]
Clint Barton: Natasha.
Natasha Romanoff: I've been compromised. I got red in my ledger. I'd like to wipe it out.

- Natasha Romanoff from Avengers (2012)

War, The Art of War

故曰：知彼知己，百戰不殆；不知彼而知己，一勝一負；不知彼，不知己，每戰必殆。

- 孫武, 孫子, 謀攻篇 第三

So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss. If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or may lose. If you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will always endanger yourself.

- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Verses from the book occur in modern daily Chinese idioms and phrases, such as the last verse of Chapter 3.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War

Help, Audrey Hepburn

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

- Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)

Chance, Wall Street

You always need a catalyst to make big things happen.

- Wall Street

Hope, Armenian Proverb

Արևն ամպի տակ չի մնայ:
Transliteration: Arevn ampi tak chi mna.
Translation: The sun won't stay behind the cloud.

- Armenian proverb

Meaning: The truth won't stay hidden and will come out.
Književnost. 1986.

English equivalent: A lie has short legs.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Armenian_proverbs
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:Proverbs

The Answer to Prayers, Gospel of Matthew

The Answer to Prayers.

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

+ Gospel of Matthew 7,7-8

http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/7

Success, Lee Iacocca

Success comes not from what you know, but from who you know and how you present yourself to each of those people.

- Lee Iacocca

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Investing only in networking with little talent is a problem; but possessing the talent yet neglecting to invest in networking can be considered equally as bad. Developing your own skills while helping others and benefiting yourself- this is the beauty of networking, and is the definition of a win-win situation.

Kid, Phoebe Cates

Kids today are much more independent than their parents were. We`re really into getting jobs and we mature sexually much earlier than a generation ago. Or, at least, we are involved in sex earlier.

- Phoebe Cates (1963- )

Plan, ZHUGE Liang

謀事在人成事在天。

- 諸葛亮, 三國演義

Man proposes, god disposes.

- ZHUGE Liang (諸葛亮, 181–234), Romance of the Three Kingdoms (三國演義)

Success, Ann Richards

I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression, and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew. Leaders who told us when things were tough, and that we would have to sacrifice, and these difficulties might last awhile. They didn't tell us things were hard for us because we were different, or isolated, or special interests. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

- Ann Richards (1933-2006)

Advice, Aramaic Proverb

If you steal from a thief, you also have a taste of it.

- Aramaic Proverb

Just because someone steals, you have no right to rob them. (Talmud Bavli, Berakoth, 5b)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aramaic_proverbs

Responsibility, Booker T. Washington

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

- Booker T. Washington (1858-1915)

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The subtle beauty of empowerment is that it is done despite knowing there will be losses through the temporary transfer of authority. In the long run, it helps the growth of subordinates by improving motivation and devotion- if one does not have the courage to endure short-term losses, it is not true empowerment.

Birth, Selina Kyle from The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Selina Kyle: You don't get to judge me just because you were born in the master bedroom of Wayne Manor
Bruce Wayne: [interrupting] Actually, I was born in the Regency Room.

- Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle, The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

The Demand for a Sign, Gospel of Luke

The Demand for a Sign.

While still more people gathered in the crowd, he said to them, “This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah.

+ Gospel of Luke 11,29

http://www.usccb.org/bible/luke/11

Time, Thousand Character Classic

尺璧非寶寸陰是競。

- 千字文

Jade has a price but time is priceless.

- Thousand Character Classic (千字文)

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From

千字文 (Thousand Character Classic)

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Reference

¶ 少年易老学难成，一寸光阴不可轻。(朱憙)
The young become old soon. It takes a lot of time to learn something. We must not waste any time. [Zhu Xi (朱憙, 1130-1200)]

¶ Time is money.(Western Proverb)

¶ You may delay, but time will not. (Benjamin Franklin)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Character_Classic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AThousand_Character_Classic

Advice, Knute Rockne

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

- Knute Rockne (1888-1931)

Winter, Christina Rossetti

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

- Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

Ability to Adapt to a New Epoch, Bill Gross

There is not a Bond King or a Stock King or an Investor Sovereign alive that can claim title to a throne. All of us, even the old guys like Buffett, Soros, Fuss, yeah – me too, have cut our teeth during perhaps a most advantageous period of time, the most attractive epoch, that an investor could experience. ...What if an epoch changes? What if perpetual credit expansion and its fertilization of asset prices and returns are substantially altered? What if zero-bound interest rates define the end of a total return epoch that began in the 1970s, accelerated in 1981 and has come to a mathematical dead-end for bonds in 2012/2013 and commonsensically for other conjoined asset classes as well? What if a future epoch favors lower than index carry or continual bouts of 2008 Lehmanesque volatility, or encompasses a period of global geopolitical confrontation with a quest for scarce and scarcer resources such as oil, water, or simply food as suggested by Jeremy Grantham? What if the effects of global "climate change or perhaps aging demographics," substantially alter the rather fertile petri dish of capitalistic expansion and endorsement? What if quantitative easing policies eventually collapse instead of elevate asset prices? What if there is a future that demands that an investor—a seemingly great investor—change course, or at least learn new tricks? Ah, now, that would be a test of greatness: the ability to adapt to a new epoch.

- Bill Gross (1944- )

Pimco's Bill Gross Looks at the Man in the Mirror (CNBC.com, 3 Apr 2013)
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100612898

http://finclip.blogspot.kr/2013/04/pimcos-bill-gross-looks-at-man-in-mirror.html

Friend, Arabic Proverb

Any wise enemy is better than an ignorant friend.

- Arabic proverb

Quoted in Carol Bardenstein, Translation and Transformation in Modern Arabic Literature:The Indigenous Assertions of Muḥammad 'Uthmān Jalāl, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005, p. 66.

Arabic proverb: Proverbs from all Arabic speaking parts of the world.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arabic_proverbs
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:Proverbs