Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Words of Wisdom - G


Garlic is not a cologne.

GEN “C” (connected)

Generalship is not about fighting the battle, it's about inspiring the enlisted.

Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes them.

Genius = disciplined talent.

Genius is what you do with the mistakes.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Get in over your head

Get it first, but first get it right.

Get out of the building.

Get sales up, and keep expenses down.

Get the spectators off the field.

Get under the covers.

Get what you can and what you get, hold.
Get your lantern before it grows dark.

Getting better at getting better.

Getting even with someone is no way to get ahead of anyone.

Getting good players is easy.  Getting them to play together is the hard part.

Getting married a third time is like inviting a burn victim to a fireworks show.

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Getting paid for being laid.

Getting the most out of people isn’t necessarily getting the best.

Getting users is a gradual process that needs to be aggressively pursued in every start-up.

Gifts that eat.

Girls are made, men are raised.

Give a man a mask and he will tell you the truth.

Give a man enough rope, and he will hang himself.

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

Give me the luxuries of life, and I will gladly do without the necessities.

Give up on perfection.

Give your dream a deadline. That makes it a goal.

Given a 10% chance of a 100 times payout, you should take that bet every time. (BEZOS)

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

Giving up doesn’t mean stopping.

Giving up drinking doesn’t make you live longer, it only feels like it.

Giving up on perfection without giving up on hope.

Glamour is a bird that for dark and largely unknowable reasons decides to light on this branch rather than another.

Globalization is the forest. Personalization is the trees.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Go all out in romance and let the chips fall wherever.

Go big or go home.

Go big or stay home.

Go deep or don’t go at all.

Go know.

Go out and make it happen.

Go out on a limb – that’s where the fruit is.
Go over their heads.

"Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by /
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie."

Go where you are wanted.

God aids him who changes.

God does not roll dice. (Einstein)

God gave man a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to run one at a time.

God – Give me one more bubble. I promise I will sell.

God has given you one face and you make yourself another. 9Hamlet)

God is in the details.

God is not on the side of the big arsenals, but on the side of those who shoot best.

God is on the side not of the heavy battalions, but of the best shots.

God is non the side of the best artillery.

God said it, I believe it, and that settles it.

God sees the truth, but waits.

God’s punishment:  Gottes Strafe.

Going slow isn’t anyone’s idea of how to get ahead.

Going to church does not make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

Golf is a sport of the least mistakes.

Good artists copy.  Great artists steal.

Good company on the road is the shortest cut.

Good companies get funded in any market.

Good cooking takes time.  If you are made to wait, it is to serve you better and to please you.

Good days, bad days and half going mad days.

Good decisions come from wisdom.
Wisdom comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad decisions.

Good deeds are better than wise sayings.

Good design is less about what is added than what is subtracted.

Good enough is never enough.

Good enough never is.

Good enough sometimes is

Good Enough is Plenty

Good, fast, cheap (pick any two).

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.

Good gets better; bad gets worse

Good ideas, based on solid concepts, have a great deal of difficulty being understood by those who make a living doing things the other way.

Good is the enemy of great.

Good judgment comes from experience which comes from bad judgment.

Good leaders build loyalty beyond reason.

Good leadership is about disappointing people at a rate they can handle.

Good managers challenge their people; poor ones comfort them.

Good music is a means of rapid transportation.

Good things of day begin to droop and drowse / while night's black agents to their preys do rouse.

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.

Good will doesn’t equal good coverage.

Good wolf/bad wolf .. The one you feed is the one who will prevail.

Goodbye is the emptiest yet fullest of the human messages. (Vonnegut)

Goodhart’s Law: When the measure becomes the goal, it ceases to be an effective measure.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Grace is more beautiful than beauty.

Grace is to the body what clear thinking is to the mind.

Grand themes-emotion of triumph, romance of professionalism.

Grant graciously what you cannot safely refuse, and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.

Great brands are earned, not bought.

Great companies hire from within.

Great companies make meaning.

Great education isn’t about filling an empty vessel; it’s about lighting a fire and sustaining the passion that we all have to make a difference in the lives of others.

Great griefs are mute.

Great love and great achievements involve great risk.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

Great minds think alike.

Great music penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty.  Magical music never leaves the memory.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

Great openings sell scripts; great endings sell tickets

Great People are the ONLY Sustainable Competitive Advantage

Great players swing as hard as they want, average players swing as hard as they can.

Great poetry sounds great in any interested reader’s voice.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.  (Einstein)

Great success cannot come without great setbacks.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.

Greatness is achieved despite as much as because of who we are.

Grinning like a jackass eating briars.

Groups that change the world have an original vision, one that is as likely to be rooted in dreams as in experience.

Grow in control

Grow your business with stronger people who can take responsibility and initiative; not with more rules and structure

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

Growth solves most problems.

Guilt is a waste of emotion.

Guilt is the most useless emotion known to man

Guilt never falls to the floor. (Cuba)