What is your favorite Quote or Saying?

[otlski]

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

 

[otlski]

and my second one...

Do not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Just spoke to my lady friend who said she read this on a service station billboard.

Dreamt of Mufflers and woke up Exhausted.

 

[bunyip]

If you are not fired with enthusiasm you will be fired with enthusiasm.

 

[drssg]

If you are not fired with enthusiasm you will be fired with enthusiasm.

That’s a good saying, but it doesn’t match my personal experience. In one of my most frustrating years of work, my employer made a really stupid decision and wasted at least half a million dollars. I argued against it vehemently, but the other team members (with more authority than me) seemed impervious to logic.

During my next review, my boss brought up that situation, and by this time it was clear that I had been right. But he didn’t bring it up to tell me how smart I am. His point was that I argued my position for too long. I should have just presented my view, and then let the higher ups do their thing.

After that, I had a much more mundane attitude towards work. I showed up and did my job, but I really didn’t care about the overall business. I seemed to get along better that way.

 

[Industrial Toys]

That's sad. Kind of like when Jack Nicolson get's the lobotomy on one flew over the cuckoos nest.

 

[dragoneggs]

That's sad. Kind of like when Jack Nicolson get's the lobotomy on one flew over the cuckoos nest.

Almost perfect analogy.

 

[Howling]

and my second one...

Do not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Goes with

Comes a time in every project you must shot the engineer and ship the machine.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

That’s a good saying, but it doesn’t match my personal experience. In one of my most frustrating years of work, my employer made a really stupid decision and wasted at least half a million dollars. I argued against it vehemently, but the other team members (with more authority than me) seemed impervious to logic.

During my next review, my boss brought up that situation, and by this time it was clear that I had been right. But he didn’t bring it up to tell me how smart I am. His point was that I argued my position for too long. I should have just presented my view, and then let the higher ups do their thing.

After that, I had a much more mundane attitude towards work. I showed up and did my job, but I really didn’t care about the overall business. I seemed to get along better that way.

I'm saying that this was the case for you, but the realization came to me one day when the boss did something really stupid, that sometimes the boss will do something really stupid, when he knows that you know it is stupid, just to show you he is the boss and it's his decision, stupid or not.

 

[bunyip]

I still work with turkeys like that, one has a minor diploma with one unit of psychology and tries to tell me all about psychology, it can be quite enlightening.