Colective wisdom

There rarely are completely free offers; they come attached with hooks. So, beware of such offers.

If you deviate from the norm, you’ll face resistance, even hostile reaction in extreme case.

If you want to achieve the desired quality, work diligently and carefully and not cut corners.

Those in the highest positions can be vulnerable as many aspire to replace them. Second, if the person is replaced, it’s not easy to find a similar position because of paucity of roles at the top.

The higher an incompetent person rises in an organization, the more his incompetence is exposed.

The harder you work, the more ideas and chances you may make for yourself.

People are never satisfied with their own situation; they always think others have it better.

The family that gets together regularly to pray or eat is more close-knit than the family that doesn’t.

True love goes through ups and downs.

Take advantage of an opportunity before it extinguishes.

If a person doesn’t speak much, it doesn’t mean they lack depth or are uninteresting.

If you work only on regular projects, you won’t be challenged and hence not become better at what you do. So, volunteer into few challenging projects as well.

Slow and consistent work leads to better chance of success than quick work in spurts.

If you don’t object to what someone says or does, you may be assumed to agree to some extent.

We arrived in this world without anything, and we’ll leave without anything.

Important work takes time to complete.

People agree with and flatter rich people to be in good books with them.

Behave the way you encourage others to behave.

Doing something over and over makes one better at it.

Speaking politely costs no more than speaking rudely, but it can yield much more by making friends.

You can achieve better results through persuasion than through coercion.

People who have some shortcomings shouldn’t criticize others for having the same shortcomings.

Thinking and writing have more influence on people and events than use of force.

What may seem to be junk to one person maybe valuable to another.

A person won’t do something a second time because he/she had bad experience the first time.

Those who are flexible and relatively insignificant can survive a crisis that brings down powerful who are unable or unwilling to adapt.

If you don’t receive any news about someone or something, it means that everything is fine and going normally.

To succeed in one’s pursuits, it is necessary to work hard and sacrifice pleasures.

If you have a difficult problem to solve or an important decision to make, a good night’s sleep will work wonders.

If you’re testing the depth of water with both feet down, you risk being drowned if the water turns out to be deep. But if you test with one foot, you can pull away. The proverb means that before going whole hog into something unknown, assess the risk well.