Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 8 " I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. " ―  Abraham Maslow 'Law of the instrument' || "Law of the hammer" || "Maslow's hammer" Source:   Q uote Investigator  and  W ikipedia .

Quote of the Week 7 " Vision without execution is just hallucination. " ―  Henry Ford Many thanks to  Elliott Seymour, Jr.   who relayed this snippet of wisdom to me more than 20 years ago after a roadmap presentation at the iXOS User Community Americas 2000 conference in San Antonio. Source: 150 Henry Ford quotes . (I have also seen this quote attributed to Thomas A. Edison.)

Quote of the Week 5 " Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan . " ―   Cited by John F. Kennedy   Background information:  He said "There's an old saying that victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan. ...". "While John F. Kennedy gets credit for saying, victory has a thousand fathers, people forget that he called it an old saying. It is actually during World War II that Count Galeazzo Ciano, the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's foreign minister and his son-in-law as well, wrote in his diary: victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. " Source:  Origin of 'No Jack Kennedy' Comment Disputed (NPR) Ciano's statement was probably influenced by Tacitus. Tacitus’s law:  “Inquissima haec bellorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi indicant; aduersa uni imputantur” (Agricola 27:1 - 98 AD) which roughly translates to " This is an unfair thing about war: victory is claimed by all, failure to one alone. &