All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.Sun Tzu
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.Sun Tzu
In 1903, I finished my doctor's thesis and obtained the degree. At the end of the same year, the Nobel prize was awarded jointly to Becquerel, my husband and me for the discovery of radioactivity and new radioactive elements.Marie Curie
Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we're continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we've taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.Mark Zuckerberg
I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.Mark Zuckerberg
All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.Mark Zuckerberg
I won't go so far as to say that novels sell in inverse proportion to their worth, for just occasionally, someone like Dickens or George Eliot comes along to prove the opposite.Howard Jacobson
It's always nice to be praised, and insofar as a prize is a form of praise, you're glad when you get it.Howard Jacobson
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.Douglas Coupland
The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.Douglas Coupland
