Monday, September 15, 2025

Thomas J. Watson JR – Former President, IBM

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.”

Tony Tan Caktiong – Founder and Chairman of Jollibee Foods Corporation

 “Dreams are free. Why limit what you are aspiring for? But dreaming is not enough. One needs to put in enough energy and input....

Thuc Doan Nguyen – Founder of The Bitch Pack, Filmmaker, Screenwriter, Film Producer

 “We must not be ‘those crabs that drag each other into the pot’ when one gets some traction and instead uplift one another, help...

Oscar Wilde – Irish poet and playwright

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

George Eliot; pen name of Mary Ann Evans – English novelist, poet

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

Douglas Adams – English author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

 “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

Bil Keane – American cartoonist

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”

Mark Twain – American writer, humorist and essayist

 “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”

Maurice Switzer – American author

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson – American minister, essayist, poet

  “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”