“Woodism - “What you focus on grows. If a person is not moving us forward, they are holding us back from our future. Growing a company requires bright lights, not candles.”
Source: Founderology: The Ultimate Employee Guide to Succeed with any Boss in any Workplace
“Bring your whole self to all you do—anything less shortchanges you and your possibilities. — Fritzi Woods”
Source: Founderology: The Ultimate Employee Guide to Succeed with any Boss in any Workplace
“Founders don’t want to be wrong or at least don’t want to accept that they can make mistakes.”
Source: Founderology: The Ultimate Employee Guide to Succeed with any Boss in any Workplace
“Woodism - “The only competitive differential in business is culture—create a CULT that inspires the best in everyone!”
Source: Founderology: The Ultimate Employee Guide to Succeed with any Boss in any Workplace
“Woodism - “You don’t know until you try—find a yes in every no.”
Source: Founderology: The Ultimate Employee Guide to Succeed with any Boss in any Workplace
“Meteorites don’t fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way.” - John W. Campbell”
Source: The Hammer of God
“My corps of attorneys will contact you in the morning wherever it is that you carry on your questionable activities. I shall warn them beforehand that they may expect to see and hear anything. They are all brilliant attorneys, pillars of the community, aristocratic Creole scholars whose knowledge of the more surreptitious forms of living is quite limited. They may even refuse to see you. A considerably lesser representative may be sent to call upon you, some junior partner whom they've taken in out of pity.”
“Legal action is but warfare disguised.”
“I cannot concern myself with the intolerable affections and frivolous actions of a cruel, selfish, and litigious society. I must treasure the invisible muteness and inherent intelligence that nature blessed me with at birth. I shall endeavor to find beauty in living, striving, suffering, and dying in nature’s glorious wonderland of grasslands, forest, rivers, and seas situated under an of infinite canopy of glittering stars. Perhaps when I reach the end of this long scroll I will finally leave behind me the tragic sense of ignobly that haunts my nights and begin living in a world filled with infinite sunshine and boundless delight.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“[S]ome score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be --- as here they are --- mistily engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee-deep in technicalities, running their goat-hair and horse-hair warded heads against walls of words, and making a pretence of equity with serious faces ....”
Source: Bleak House