SRC Quote

SRC Quote of the Year 2018

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
(Oscar Wilde)

 

SRC Quote of the Year 2017

"Nature is gracious! If you promise a lot, you will be given a bad memory."
(Bob Hope, British-American actor, 1903–2003)

 

SRC Quote of the Year 2016

"Long live the Pioneers, Rebels and Mutineers!"
(X Ambassadors)

 

SRC Quote of the Year 2015

"Do not part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
(Mark Twain)

 

SRC Quote of the Year 2014

"You should only write off Darmstadt once we are in the showers."
(Dirk Schuster, coach of SV Darmstadt 98, on 16 May 2014 after the 1:3 first-leg defeat in the 2nd Bundesliga relegation play-off against Arminia Bielefeld. Three days later the team won promotion with a 4:2 in the second leg.)

 

 

SRC Quote of the Year 2013

"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why." (Albert Einstein)

 

SRC Quote of the Year 2012

"You have to have learned a lot, to ask about things, that you don't know."
(Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

 

SRC Quote of the Year 2011

"The Power of the Bankers comes near to a surrealistic nightmare like in the Wizard of Oz." (Tim Price, PFP Group London, about the making of Libor interest rates in the City)

 

SRC Quote of the Year 2010

"When you take risks, it's like jumping up in the air, and it's nice to know the ground will be there when you land." (Apple CEO Steve Jobs at AGM on
25 February 2010)

 

SRC Quote of the Year 2009

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word crisis. One brush stroke stands for danger. The other for opportunity. In a crisis be aware of the danger, but recognise the opportunity." (John F. Kennedy)

 

SRC Quote of the Year 2008

"The trouble with intelligence is that you have to keep learning all the time."
(George Bernard Shaw)

 

SRC Quote of the Year 2007

"Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make one." (Arthur Schopenhauer)

 

SRC Quote of the Year 2006

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do."

(Before the 2006 World Cup, national coach Jürgen Klinsmann wrote the 9 team resolutions on the title page of each player’s personal diary. Among them was this quote by J. W. von Goethe.)

 

SRC Quote of the Year 2005

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
(Thomas Watson, CEO of IBM, 1943)

 

SRC Quote of the Year 2004

"Whoever can attack, attacks."
(Jan Ullrich at the 2003 Tour de France, asked about his "eternal duel" with Lance Armstrong)

 

SRC Quote of the Year 2003

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one
has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome
while trying to succeed.” (Booker T. Washington)