Ignas Alexander

“Menelaus, if you are really going to kill her, \ Then my blessing go with you, but you must do it now, \ Before her looks so twist the strings of your heart \ That they turn your mind; for her eyes are like armies, \ And where her glances fall, there cities burn, / Until the dust of their ashes is blown \ By her sighs. I know her, Menelaus, \ And so do you. And all those who know her suffer.”
― Neil Curry, The Trojan Women - Helen - The Bacchae

“Much more genius is needed to make love than to command armies.”
― Ninon de L'Enclos

“Viskas baigta. Ir gerai, kad baigta. Prieš kiekvieną svarbų pasiryžimą kiekvienas žmogus ilgai svyruoja ir abejoja. Bet pakanka vieną kartą pasiryžti — ir štai viskas aišku ir ramu.”
― Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas, Altorių šešėly

“Great CEOs face the pain. They deal with the sleepless nights, the cold sweats, and what my friend the great Alfred Chuang (legendary cofounder and CEO of BEA Systems) calls “the torture.” Whenever I meet a successful CEO, I ask them how they did it. Mediocre CEOs point to their brilliant strategic moves or their intuitive business sense or a variety of other self-congratulatory explanations. The great CEOs tend to be remarkably consistent in their answers. They all say, “I didn’t quit.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers—Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship