“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”

Lewis Carol, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

買い手に媚びへつらうのではなく、売り手が自信を持ってサービスを提供して自信を持っておねだんをつける

大野裕之「京都のおねだん」

If you want to be popular all the time, you will misgovern. I have never been overconcerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a weak leader. If you are concerned with whether your rating will go up or down, then you are not a leader. You are just catching the wind.

Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World

In the U.S. almost 90 percent say they choose Uber because they want to be their own boss. Drivers value their independence — the freedom to push a button rather than punch a clock, to use Uber and Lyft simultaneously, to drive most of the week or for just a few hours.

Travis Kalanick, Growing and Growing Up

We are Ladies and Gentlemen serving Ladies and Gentlemen.

THE RITZ-CARLTON

We must know the whole play in order to properly act our parts; the conception of totality must never be lost in that of the individual.

Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea

現場に足を運び、五感を総動員すれば問題の本質が見えてきますし、法律だけに頼らない迫力、説得力が出てきます。

中坊公平「私の事件簿」

本来、戦術の失敗は戦闘で補うことはできず、戦略の失敗は戦術で補うことはできない。

戸部良一他「失敗の本質」

まずは自分の中にしっかりした軸を作る。そのうえで、新しく知識が入ったら、その知識を自分の軸と比較してみる。そして、新しいほうがよさそうだと思えば、それを試してみればいいし、もともとある軸の方が安定していると思ったら、そのままでいい。

藤井猛「四間飛車上達法」

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.

Harlan Miller