“Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.” GivingBoysCryAmbitionConsequenceGive MeProfitDefeatedPreferenceIdlenessAnimatedReproachEmulation Book:Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity Source: Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity
“A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely upon him. Often I have known a man to be preferred in stations of honor and profit because he had this reputation: When he said he knew a thing, he knew it, and when he said he would do a thing, he did it.” MenWorldSaidKnownTrustHonorConsequenceProfitReputationRelyStationsRely Upon Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.” MeanQualityProgressPaperStandardsConsequenceConcernedExcellenceSizeProfitProsperityProductivityMagnitude Author:Alex Campbell