Eckhard Quotes & Sayings

Even if you are 18, my advice to you is: plan for your future. — Doug Benson

Retire? I will never retire. — Eckhard Pfeiffer

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked. — Alfred Nobel

Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different. — Eckhard Pfeiffer

The main task of pastoral ministry, according to Paul's address to the Ephesian elders, is not the quantitative growth of the church, but the maturity of the believers. — Eckhard J. Schnabel

I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop. — Eckhard Pfeiffer

I see Intershop as a leader in the E-commerce digital economy and believe the company has truly long-term potential. — Eckhard Pfeiffer

I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are. — Flannery O'Connor

I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished. — Eckhard Pfeiffer

The commander must establish personal and comradely contact with his men, but without giving away one inch of authority. — Erwin Rommel

I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive. — John McAfee

A lot of people are capable, Neelkanth. What makes a capable person truly dangerous is his conviction. — Amish Tripathi

We let ourselves loose on that simple blank piece of paper, and our bodies spill. The terror, the love ... embodying our stories page after page. In a sense, the pen was our tongue, it is how we delineate the world. — Coco J. Ginger

No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry. — Eckhard Pfeiffer

The whole point of meditation is not to follow the path laid down by thought to what it considers to be truth, enlightenment or reality. There is no path to truth. The following of any path leads to what thought has already formulated and, however pleasant or satisfying, it is not truth. It is a fallacy to think that a system of meditation, the constant practising of that system in daily life for a few given moments, or the repetition of it during the day, will bring about clarity or understanding. Meditation lies beyond all this and, like love, cannot be cultivated by thought. As long as the thinker exists to meditate, meditation is merely a part of that self-isolation which is the common movement of one's everyday life. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard. — Eckhard Pfeiffer

We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs. — Eckhard Pfeiffer

It is better," says Eckhard, "to look at the wall. You look at the wall, you have your own thoughts. You look at he TV, you have the thoughts of the state. — William Nicholson

I am a very thorough person. — Eckhard Pfeiffer

I think the PC will continue to be around for a long, long time to come. We see a new range of products evolving around the PC, but it's not going away. — Eckhard Pfeiffer

We've seen the power of the PC, and we've seen that it's unstoppable. — Eckhard Pfeiffer

Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history. — Eckhard Pfeiffer

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds", says Mrs. Phillips. "Our members will not be allowed to wear, or buy, ant hats with feathers, and they must devote themselves to the cause of protecting the birds and discouraging their wanton destruction. — Helen Humphreys

The internet is just a scary place. It's better to just go to the doctor. Don't let Google get inside your head. It will do bad things to you. — Carrie Brownstein

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.) — Dale Dauten

I like the challenge of growing small companies into big global companies. — Eckhard Pfeiffer