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
The secret to success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
Ferdinand Porsche
The slowest person, who dosen’t lose sight of his goal, will still be faster as the one straying around with no aim.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Rather decide almost right than exactly wrong.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.
George Smith Patton
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
