„Good is the enemy of great. That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem“
As cited in: Margaret A. Byrnes, Jeanne Baxter (2006), The Principal's Leadership Counts!. p. 99
Good To Great And The Social Sectors, 2005
Jim Collins1
US-amerikanischer Manager 1958Ähnliche Zitate
„This was a great reward for us. We had not had the good fortune to meet the enemy in force.“
— Emilio De Bono Italian General 1866 - 1944
Quoted in "The Civilizing Mission: A History of the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-1936" - Page 172 - by A. J. Barker - 1968
„All things – great, small, good, bad, friend, enemy—should be a lesson, not an obsession.“
— Eugene J. Martin American artist 1938 - 2005
Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978
„Karl Marx; the great enemy of human freedom.“
— Harry V. Jaffa American historian and collegiate professor 1918 - 2015
As quoted in "What Would Lincoln Think?" http://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=knpGZGYLrRM#What_Would_Lincoln_Think__Harry_Jaffa_on_The_American_Mind (20 February 2014), by Charles Kesler, The Claremont Institute
2010s, Interview with Charles Kesler (2014)
„That which is good for the enemy harms you, and that which is good for you harms the enemy.“
— Niccolo Machiavelli, buch The Art of War
Quello che giova al nimico nuoce a te, e quel che giova a te nuoce al nimico.
Rule 1 from Machiavelli's Lord Fabrizio Colonna: libro settimo (Book 7) http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101013672561;view=1up;seq=176 (Modern Italian uses nemico instead of nimico.)
The Art of War (1520)
— Rakesh Khurana American business academic 1967
Rakesh Khurana (2010). From higher aims to hired hands: The social transformation of American business schools and the unfulfilled promise of management as a profession. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 27
— Charles Stross, buch Singularity Sky
Quelle: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 7, “A Semiotic War” (p. 159)
— Larry Bird basketball player and coach 1956
Peter Vecsey (May 26, 2000) "Looks Like Larry's Indy Mood to Stay", New York Post.
„One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to the good.“
— Edmund Burke Anglo-Irish statesman 1729 - 1797
15 February 1788
On the Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1788-1794)
„It’s the problem with politics. Your enemies are often your allies. And vice versa.“
— Daniel Abraham speculative fiction writer from the United States 1969
Quelle: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 19 (p. 194)
„The best is the enemy of the good.“
— Voltaire, La Bégueule
Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.
"La Bégueule" (Contes, 1772)
Variant translations:<p>The perfect is the enemy of the good.
The better is the enemy of the good.
translation of earlier traditional Italian Il meglio è nemico del bene, attested since 1603: Proverbi italiani (Italian Proverbs), by Orlando Pescetti http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/orlando-pescetti/ (c. 1556 – c. 1624) ( p. 30 https://books.google.com/books?id=0fkXqSJmiyEC&pg=PA30-IA2&q=%22Il%20meglio%20%C3%A8%20nemico%20del%20bene%22#v=onepage, p. 45 https://books.google.com/books?id=IRPam75-SI4C&pg=RA1-PT45&q=%22Il%20meglio%20%C3%A8%20nemico%20del%20bene%22#v=onepage)
Voltaire cites this saying in his poem "La Bégueule" ("The prude woman") while ascribing it to an unnamed "Italian sage"; he also gives the saying (without attribution) in Italian (Il meglio è l'inimico del bene [note spelling difference: l'inimico instead of nemico for "[the] enemy") in the article "Art Dramatique" ("Dramatic Art", 1770) in the Dictionnaire philosophique
Citas
„The best is the enemy of the good.“
— Bjarne Stroustrup Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ 1950
Conference Madrid 2019
— Shigeru Miyamoto Japanese video game designer and producer 1952
Quelle: Interview with Shigeru Miyamoto http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/shigeru-miyamoto-interview Eurogamer.net, published on 31 March 2010
„Little changes are the enemies of great changes.“
— Bertolt Brecht German poet, playwright, theatre director 1898 - 1956
"Quotation" [Zitat] (1930s), trans. Michael Morley in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 277
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)
„Good kings are the enemies of democracy.“
— Oscar Wilde, Vera; or, The Nihilists
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
— Julian of Norwich English theologian and anchoress 1342 - 1416
The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 69
— William Osler Canadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital 1849 - 1919
Vol. I, ch. 14.
The Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
— Milton Friedman American economist, statistician, and writer 1912 - 2006
The National Times, Australia, (March 1, 1977)
„The problem of destroying enemy rockets in flight has been successfully solved in our country.“
— Sergei Biriuzov Soviet military commander 1904 - 1964
Quoted in "Military Deception and Strategic Surprise" - by John Gooch, Amos Perlmutter - 1982
