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Sun, 11 May 2008

Quote by Abraham Lincoln
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

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Quotes by Peter Drucker
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Peter Drucker

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

Peter Drucker

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Peter Drucker

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Peter Drucker

The computer is a moron.

Peter Drucker

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.

Peter Drucker

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

"Management" means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force

Peter Drucker

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Sun, 04 May 2008

New Words - Artsy

Artsy:
Used as an adjective which means overly artistic. When the letter 'y' is added to the compound arts 'y' takes the meaning "of". We see this evolution in many words in the recent past.

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# 3 Words and their stories
With the advent of technology, the English language vocabulary is evolving like no other. Words that are currently added or are beig used in the English language were unheard of in the recent past.
Just to look at a two of them, here are:
bazillion: words ending in -illion like zillion and bazillion are ficticious names representing very large numbers.
nip and tuck: used as an adjective to indicate a close contest e.g. neck to neck or as a noun in which skin is removed to make one look young e.g a facelift. Thought I was done learning stuff when I graduated from high school,then I thought university would do it. Yeah the saying is true "Every day you learn something new"

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