Kevin McDonagh > Kevin's Quotes

“abilities gradually deteriorate in the absence of deliberate efforts to improve. So”
― Anders Ericsson, Peak: Unleashing Your Inner Champion Through Revolutionary Methods for Skill Acquisition and Performance Enhancement in Work, Sports, and Life

“The present order often clumsy often stupid has this advantage over any other. It works. Doubtless it will merge by degrees into another order and it will also work. But not so much as to what it is, but as into what men will bring into it.”
― Henry Ford, Henry Ford Autobiography: My Life and Work + 10 Bonus Biographies!

“The end of money is not ease but the opportunity to perform more service.”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work

“Strive for minimum waste, minimum profit, maximum distribution.”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work

“Progress through cautious, well founded experiments.”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work

“The problem with wise people. They always know what is wrong. So I never employ an expert in full bloom.”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work

“If you keep a record of all your failures you will soon have a list of everything which cannot be done.”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work

“We get some of our best results by letting fools Rush in where angels dear to tread”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work

“Ask 100 people what they want and 80 will not know. 15 will claim to know. 5 will have a preference. The 95 are the market, few of the 5 are willing to pay… Don't listen to the 5% who request the changes. Listen to the 95% who buy without making a fuss!”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work

“If a device would save in time 10% or bring about results worth 10% then its absence is worth 10%.”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work

“A department is a little factory unto itself with input and output”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work

“The difficulty is not in finding men to advance but men willing to be advanced.”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work

“Be not bound by the present, but leave nothing to luck.”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work

“It is easier to make money from money than it is to make money from business. Don't take the acumen of bankers as any guide for business, all they know is money.”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work

“Without scientific study, an employer does not know why he is paying a wage and the employee does not know why he is getting it.”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work

“Buying ahead of requirements does not pay. Any wins are negated later down the line.”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work

“You are not saving when you are taking away from yourself becoming more productive. You are really taking away from your ultimate capital.”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work

“Son, it’s easy tae be guid oan a fu’ belly. It’s when a man’s goat two bites an’ wan o’ them he’ll share, ye ken whit he’s made o’. Listen. In ony country in the world, who are the only folk that ken whit it’s like tae leeve in that country? The folk at the boattom. The rest can a’ kid themselves oan. They can afford to hiv fancy ideas. We canny, son. We loass the wan idea o’ who we are, we’re deid. We’re wan anither. Tae survive, we’ll respect wan anither. When the time comes, we’ll a’ move forward thegither, or nut at all.”
― William McIlvanney, Docherty

“If someone says maybe, write it down as no.”
― Cindy Alvarez, Lean Customer Development: Building Products Your Customers Will Buy

“If you can’t convert a warm prospect in a 20-minute face-to-face interview, it will be much harder to convert a visitor in less than eight seconds on your landing page.”
― Ash Maurya, Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean

“Ben Horowitz uses the difference between a vitamin and an aspirin to articulate this point. Vitamins are nice to have; they offer some potential health benefits, but you probably don’t interrupt your commute when you are halfway to the office to return home for the vitamin you neglected to take before you left the house. It also takes a very, very long time to know if your vitamins are even working for you. If you have a headache, though, you’ll do just about anything to get an aspirin! They solve your problem and they are fast acting. Similarly, products that often have massive advantages over the status quo are aspirins; VCs want to fund aspirins.”
― Scott Kupor, Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It

“Released, I am a spear in the hands of the sun.”
― Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

“If you’re not willing to do a wholesale, 24/7, 100 percent swap with who that person is, then there is no point in being jealous.”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Better an end with horror than a horror without end.”
― Ferdinand von Schill

“There is no remorse like the remorse of chess. [..] It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.”
― H.G. Wells

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays