No plan survives contact with reality. (Inspired by “No plan survives the first enemy contact”)
Helmuth von Moltke
If an engineer has not had some failures, it is merely evidence that his practice has not been sufficiently extensive.
Benjamin Baker
I don’t sell future for instant success.
Werner von Siemens
The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.
Charles Babbage
You can’t build up a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford
Most managers hesitate to let their staff run with the ball, but it is amazing, who fast an informed and motivated person can run.
Lee Iacocca
You have to work together with the right people, esteem and motivate them. Lasting success is only possible in a team.
Klaus Steilmann
With small blows you also fall big trees.
Benjamin Franklin
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
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