'cos not everything
needs a TED talk

sharp insights from minds that shaped the world — and a few that history forgot to hype

17 August

In the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

16 August

Business opportunities are like buses there’s always another one coming.

Richard Branson

15 August

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

14 August

Genius is one percent inspiration ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Edison

13 August

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Alexander the Great

12 August

You always hear the phrase money doesn’t buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness.

Sergey Brin

11 August

Human beings are members of a whole in creation of one essence and soul.

Saadi

10 August

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

David Hume

9 August

To be or not to be that is the question.

William Shakespeare

8 August

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

7 August

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

John Stuart Mill

6 August

Nothing is permanent except change.

Heraclitus

5 August

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Emily Dickinson

4 August

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.

Vince Lombardi

3 August

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Bill Gates

2 August

Know yourself and know your enemy and you will never be defeated.

Sun Tzu

1 August

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Martin Heidegger

31 July

The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas.

Paul Graham

30 July

We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.

John Dewey

29 July

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahlil Gibran