Business & Entrepreneurship

What Matters Now
​by Gary Hamel

"I believe a man's greatest possession is his dignity. I believe hard work and honest sweat are the building blocks of a person's character​."

Good to Great
​by Jim Collins

“When [what you are deeply passionate about, what you can be best in the world at and what drives your economic engine] come together, not only does your work move toward greatness, but so does your life. For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then, you might gain that rare tranquility that comes from knowing that you’ve had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time here on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.”

The One Minute Manager
 by Kenneth H. Blanchard and Spencer Johnson

"People who feel good about themselves produce good results”

Personal Development

Quiet 
by Susan Cain

"Failure to distinguish between good presentation skills and true leadership ability. “I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they’re good talkers, but they don’t have good ideas,” he said. “It’s so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent. Someone seems like a good presenter, easy to get along with, and those traits are rewarded. Well, why is that? They’re valuable traits, but we put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.”"

The Tipping Point
By Malcolm Gladwell

"It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world  through those special few."

Balance the world 
​by Aurelie Salvaire

"The first problem for all of us, men and women is not to learn, but to unlearn."

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
​by Mark Manson

Developing the ability to control and manage the fucks you give is the essence of strenght and integrity.​

The Art of Being Righ
​by Arthur Schopenhauer

Hide your conclusion from your opponent till the end. Mingle your premises here and there in your talk. Get your opponent to agree to them in no definite order. By this circuitious route you conceal your game until you have obtained all the admissions that are necessary to reach your goal.​

Do Disrupt - Change the status quo. Or become it. ​By Mark Shauler

"It's not sufficient to do things better... We need to do better things!"

It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be
​by Paul Arden

whatever you think think the opposite
​by paul arden

“Your vision of where or who you want to be is the greatest asset you have. Without having a goal it’s difficult to score.”

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“DO IT, THEN FIX IT AS YOU GO.”

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The Art of War  
​by Sun Tzu

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”

It’s Not What You Say, It’s The Way You Say It!
by Parker Michael​

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”

Freedom from the Known
​By Jiddu Krishnamurti

In order to observe the movement of your own mind and heart, of your whole being, you must have a free mind, not a mind that agrees and disagrees, taking sides in an argument, disputing over mere words, but rather following with an intention to understand ​

Living Loving and Learning
​ by Leo Buscaglia

“If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.”

To Win is Not Enough 
by Sarunas Jasikevicius​

Mentally, you're preparing yourself for the higher pace and thins like that, but you can't know about it until you experience it. So I'm looking forward to it.​

eat that frog
by brian tracy​

“The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.”

the last lecture
​by randy pausch

“The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. ”

The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
​ by Ken Robinson

#Creativity: The power to bring to mind things, that are not present to our senses.

Damn Good Advice
By George Lois

Your mission is not to sedate, but to awaken, to disturb, to communicate, to command, to instigate, and even to provoke.

Show Your Work
by Austin Kleon

Be ambitious. Keep yourself busy. Think bigger. Expand your audience. Don't hobble yourself in the name of "keeping it real," or "not selling out." Try new things. If an opportunity comes along that will allow you to do more of the kind of work you want to do, say Yes. If an opportunity comes long that would mean more money, but less of the kind of work you want to do, say No.

Steal Like an Artist
by Austin Kleon ​

“The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.”

Talk Like TED
by Carmine Gallo

Ideas are the currency of the 21st Century 

The Early Years
by Kuo Mo-jo

A great master worths more than ten workers

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity  
​by Carlo M. Cipolla

Stupid people are dangerous and damaging because reasonable people find it difficult to imagine and understand unreasonable behaviour​

the magic of thinking big
​by david schwartz​

“Action cures fear.”

Wine Bar Theory
​by David Gilbertson​

people are always busy doing urgent things they might never get round to what's important.

3 Seconds: The Power of Thinking Twice by Leslie Parrott​

Nothing can better reduce stress than action​

​psychology

The Power of Self-Dependence
by Dr. Jorge Bucay

Never rely on the words of others, but always listen to them.
Do not ever follow the advice of others, but always take it into consideration.
Never depend on the opinions of others, but always record it in your memory.​

Let Me Tell You a Story: Tales Along the Road to Happiness
​ by Jorge Bucay​

Almost always, the only mistake is believing that the position I am in, is the best one from where the truth can be seen.​

Loving Oneself With Open Eyes
​ by Jorge Bucay

"Our uncertainty about our ability to cope with all the challenges presented, is not a problem, but it's part of the process."

When Nietzsche Wept
by D. Yalom

“Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.”

Literature

 Τhe Stranger
by camus albert​

“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”​

Black box
Leadership and Strategy Deductions
by Mimis Androulakis

Marathon does not mean a sum of daily impressive 100m​ races.

Invisible Citiesl
​by Italo Calvino

“Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone.
'But which is the stone that supports the bridge?' Kublai Khan asks.
'The bridge is not supported by one stone or another,' Marco answers, 'but by the line of the arch that they form.'
Kublai Khan remains silent, reflecting. Then he adds: 'Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.'
Polo answers: 'Without stones there is no arch.”

The Anarchist Banker
by Fernando Pessoa​

Anyone who avoids joining in a fight also avoids being defeated by it. Morally, though, he is defeated, precisely because he did not fight.

 The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair
by Joël Dicker​

“Learn to love your failures, because it is your failures that will make you who you are. It is your failures that will give meaning to your victories.”

All i really need to know i learned in kindergarten
by robert fulghum

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”

Drunk Ships
​by Angelopoulou Victoria 

Don't judge works of the past by today's standards

Logicomix
by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos Papadimitriou

“The oldest story around: Instinct, Emotion, and Habit get the better of human beings.”

In the Café of Lost Youth
​ by  Patrick Modiano​

By ‘bohemians’ I mean that class of individuals for whom existence is a problem, circumstances a myth, and fortune an enigma; who have no sort of fixed abode, no place of refuge; who belong nowhere and are met everywhere.

The Floating Admiral
by The Detection Club

We judge one another by our outward
actions, but in the motive underlying those actions our judgment may be widely at fault. Preoccupied by our
own private interpretation of the matter, we can see only the one possible motive behind the action, so that
our solution may be quite plausible, quite coherent, and quite wrong

Monogramma
​by Odysseas Elytis

Because the untried and the from else brought The people can't stand it​

Remember, Body...
by C.P. Cavafy

Like beautiful bodies of the dead, who had not grown old
and they shut them with tears, in a magnificent mausoleum,
with roses at the head and jasmine at the feet --
that is how desires look that have passed
without fultillment; without one of them having achieved
a night of sensual delight, or a moonlit morn.

The Little Prince​
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“If I ordered a general to fly from one flower to another like a butterfly, or to write a tragic drama, or to change himself into a sea bird, and if the general did not carry out the order that he had received, which one of us would be in the wrong?' the king demanded. 'The general, or myself?”
​One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason. If you ordered your people to go and throw themselves into the sea, they would rise up in revolution. I have the right to require obedinece because my orders are reasonable.

Death of Kings
 by  Bernard Cornwell

“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.”

Take Anywhere

The Axeman's Jazz
by Ray Celestin

"People will believe what they want to believe"