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A Biker's Quotes by The White Collar Company
The White Collar Company (official site) is a unique organization that imparts management training through motorcycles. Here's a selection of 42 quotes compiled by White Collar CEO - Kaustubh Mishra.
- Advance Facilitation Skills
- 1.0
- Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
- Crisis Management
- 2.0
- Accidents hurt - safety doesn't.
- 3.0
- Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt @ 70 mph can double your vocabulary.
- 4.0
- If you can't get it going with bungee cords and electrician's tape, it's serious.
- 5.0
- If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.
- 6.0
- The only good view of a thunderstorm is in your rearview mirror.
- 7.0
- Safety doesn't happen by accident.
- 8.0
- Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy.
- Developing Visionary Skills
- 9.0
- Young riders pick a destination and go... Old riders pick a direction and go.
- 10.0
- Sometimes it takes a whole tankful of fuel before you can think straight.
- 11.0
- The twisties - not the superslabs - separate the riders from the squids.
- General Management
- 12.0
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A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - 13.0
- There are drunk riders. There are old riders. There are NO old, drunk riders.
- 14.0
- You start the game of life with a full pot o' luck and an empty pot o' experience... The object is to fill the pot of experience before you empty the pot of luck. If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
- 15.0
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That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Leadership
- 16.0
- A good mechanic will let you watch without charging you for it.
- 17.0
- Don't lead the pack if you don't know where you're going.
- 18.0
- When you're riding lead, don't spit.
- 19.0
- Respect the person who has seen the dark side of motorcycling and lived.
- Negotiation Skills
- 20.0
- Don't argue with an 18-wheeler.
- 21.0
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Burn rubber, not your soul, baby.
Craig Fernandez and Reggie Bythewood, Biker Boyz - Organizational Value and Ethics
- 22.0
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Gray-haired riders don't get that way from pure luck.
- People Management
- 23.0
- People are like motorcycles: each is customized a bit differently.
- Personal Development
- 24.0
- Never be ashamed to unlearn an old habit.
- Personal Excellence
- 25.0
- Saddlebags can never hold everything you want, but they can hold everything you need.
- Problem-solving and Decision-making
- 26.0
- Maintenance is as much art as it is science.
- Resource Utilization
- 27.0
- Always replace the cheapest parts first.
- Stress Management
- 28.0
- A good long ride can clear your mind, restore your faith, and use up a lot of fuel.
- 29.0
- You can forget what you do for a living when your knees are in the breeze.
- 30.0
- Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.
- 31.0
- Sometimes the fastest way to get there is to stop for the night.
- 32.0
- Winter is Nature's way of telling you to polish.
- Supervisory Skills
- 33.0
- Most motorcycle problems are caused by the nut that connects the handlebars to the saddle.
- Team Building
- 34.0
- It takes more love to share the saddle than it does to share the bed .
- 35.0
- Never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly.
- 36.0
- Riding faster than everyone else only guarantees you'll ride alone.
- 37.0
- Sometimes the best communication happens when you're on separate bikes.
- Time Management and Goal-setting
- 38.0
- Don't ride so late into the night that you sleep through the sunrise.
- 39.0
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Life is too short for traffic.
Dan Bellack - Train the Trainer
- 40.0
- Never try to race an old geezer, he may have one more gear than you.
- Transformational Leadership
- 41.0
- Never be afraid to slow down.
- 42.0
- The best modifications cannot be seen from the outside.
