Ingenious people start great works, diligent people finish them.
Leonardo da Vinci
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
If an engineer has not had some failures, it is merely evidence that his practice has not been sufficiently extensive.
Benjamin Baker
The biggest enemy of quality is the hurry.
Henry Ford
A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.
George Smith Patton
There are more people who surrender, than those who fail.
Henry Ford
No plan survives contact with reality. (Inspired by “No plan survives the first enemy contact”)
Helmuth von Moltke
Aren’t the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony?
Gustave Alexandre Eiffel
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long lasting structures?
Gustave Alexandre Eiffel
