Don't just build a better candle -- electrify!
Terry Brock
During perilous times innovation is not just a good idea. It is a necessity for survival. This is a time to out-innovate the competition and find out what you can do to position yourself and your company for the good times that are sure to come in the future.
Terry Brock
"Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Although you get promoted by having the right answer, it's more important to ask the right questions as you climb higher.
David Garvin
One man with courage makes it a majority.
Andrew Jackson
"A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special"
Nelson Mandela
"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor."
Victor Hugo
"None of us has gotten where we are solely by pulling ourselves up from our own bootstraps. We got here because somebody… bent down and helped us."
Thurgood Marshall
What we say has such a profound influence upon what we see, and hear, and taste of the world!
David Abram
"How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now. And that there will never be a time when it is not now."
Gerald Jampolsky
When you can't freely express yourself, you're already behind bars.
Mbanna Kantako
In order to know how to talk, you have to know what to say. In order to know what to say, you have to get in touch with those deep-inside-of-you thoughts, feelings, needs, and yearnings. These are the parts of you that must be communicated if you are going to be known.
Dr. Neil Warren
"Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God."
Mary Manin Morrissey
"Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself. "
Robert F. Bennett
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Max Ehrmann
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
Mae West
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
Elizabeth Arden
Ethics, in the end, is not something we do. It is something we become.
Art Kleiner
"Other people may not have had high expectations for me but I had high expectations for myself. "
Shannon Miller
"Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans. "
David Schwartz
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
Warren Bennis
"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it."
Horace Mann
"What I've been doing in practice will carry over into the game."
Randall Cunningham
Most people achieved their greatest successes one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure.
Brian Tracy
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Sir Winston Churchill
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
Plato
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
Pain was not given you merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.
Thomas Carlyle
As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG !
Donald Trump
"If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today."
Joyce Chapman
"My tastes are simple. I like only the very best."
Winston Churchill
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
Truman Capote
The greatest power we have is the power of choice.
Victor Parachin
"Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call genius."
Alexander Hamilton
"With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp."
Jim Loehr
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
Leonardo da Vinci
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather the wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Antoine de Saint Exupery
"We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility."
Albert Einstein
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
William Barclay
"If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
Maya Angelou
A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Harvey Mackay
"The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust."
Persian Proverb
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
Tom Landry
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Abraham Maslow
"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."
James Allen
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Spend time with people who make you feel good about yourself, and make time for them."
Jo Richards
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Sir Winston Churchill
It is famously difficult to think outside the box, in part because we are the ones who built the box, and at the time it was an excellent box."
George Gillen
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.
James Allen
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.
Dr. David M. Burns
"Answers given with authority negate the search for truth."
Neil Innes
"Only one-in-a-million will strive with full intent and courage to become the unique somebody that person was created and destined to be! And yet each of us was destined at birth to be a one-in-a-million person!"
Dr. William Mitchell
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their "luck" arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.
Srully Blotnick
There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.
George Burton Adams
"If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."
Henry Ford
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
James Allen
"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood.
David Abram
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
Aristotle, Philosopher
The
greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo
"Our best thinking is done twice, whereas our best intuition is done at once."
W. Leitzen
"A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others."
Dr. Joseph Collins
"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop."
Confucius
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
James Allen
"Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking-by all means ask!"
W. Clement Stone
"Miracles happen to those who believe in them."
Bernard Berenson
"More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man -- he -- himself."
Gabriel Heatter
While we wait for tomorrow, we must act for today.
Mani Sivasubramanian
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater"
William Hazlitt
"A problem is your chance to do your best."
Duke Ellington
" We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."
Frank Tibolt
Everybody can be great. . . because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path. "
Henry Winkler, Actor
You can
turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can
find humor in anything --even poverty--you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
"Love is the selfless promotion of the growth of the other. "
Milton Mayeroff
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein, Physicist
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."
Benjamin Disraeli
Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?"
Steven Covey
The power of intention is a critical factor in all areas of life. Simply by intending to create synchronicity in your life, you can nurture that result.
Deepak Chopra
"Change cannot be avoided. Change provides the opportunity for innovation. It gives you the chance to demonstrate your creativity."
Keshavan Nair
Every human being possesses all 88 keys on the piano, but most of us restrict our melodies to the middle octave.
Gottesman and Mauro
"I think there is a great hunger within people to reach for the best in them."
Marty Rogol
"Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy."
Reba McEntire
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Tobias Wolff
"Who does not thank for little will not thank for much."
Estonian proverb
"The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillation, and the effect of decisiveness itself "makes things go" and creates confidence."
Anne O'Hare McCormick
"I will
persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will
complete any undertaking."
Og Mandino
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Elbert Hubbard
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of GOD.
Karl Barth
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
Robert Heinlein
"By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible."
Italian Proverb
"Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact."
Willa Cather
Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.
Frank Tyger
"The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others."
William Lyon Phelps
There is no independence quite so important as living within your means.
Calvin Coolidge
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein
Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence take life seriously--but never yourself!
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
"Look back to learn how to look forward."
Joe Girard
Poor performance anywhere in the ranks is just a symptom of poor leadership. Poor communication is just a symptom that our leadership is falling apart.
Patrick O'Flynn (NY) Sheriff
"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend."
Walter Savage Landor
I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a "transformer" in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.
Steven R. Covey
"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."
Louis Pasteur
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Warren G. Bennis
"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."
Zig Ziglar
Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die.
James L. Hayes
"Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me."
Barbara Miller, Songwriter
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
Warren G. Bennis
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
Warren G. Bennis
"Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it."
Mae West
"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
Pamela Vaull Starr
Leaders have a guiding vision, a passion that allows them to communicate a sense of hope to followers. The key to this communication is not charisma (as many experts have maintained); what is required is integrity.
Bruce A. Pasternak
It's clear that when vision and strategy are communicated so that people throughout a firm can grasp them, it creates a favorable context that often leads to the emergence of new and unsuspected strategies.
David K. Hurst
"Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles."
Sir Thomas Browne
Warning! Nothing is permanent. Anything in excess is a poison. And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to attack. Yes, it's a paradox. Now deal with it!
Tom Peters
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last."
Jack Nicklaus
"What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; oldness has genius, power and magic in it."
Johann von Goethe
"I would sooner live in a cottage and wonder at everything than live in a castle and wonder at nothing!"
Joan Winmill Brown
"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous."
Sir Thomas Browne
"The real
measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all
your money."
Unknown
"The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed."
Alfred A. Montapert
"Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"He does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speed to advance the good of others."
Hindu Maxim
"Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside."
Dr. Melba Colgrove
"A person's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."
Charles Darwin
"Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be."
Harvey Mackay
"Select a few people to be particularly kind to today, those you were a little harsh with yesterday."
Norman Vincent Peale
Though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and that will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are.
RUMI
"A wise man turns chance into good fortune."
Thomas Fuller
"We must not bury our talents, but invest them, spend them, pour them out. Then we will have even more."
Zig Ziglar
Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.
Marjorie Holmes
" A wise man will make more opportunities then he finds."
Sir Francis Bacon
"When learning about life and people, make no more assumptions than are absolutely necessary. Ask and observe."
Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm.
unknown
"Life is not measured by the breath we take but by the moments that take our breath away."
Words, good ideas and logic mean nothing to at least two of our three brains. Much of one's mind does not take orders.
"In a humble state, you learn better. I can't find anything else very exciting about humility, but at least there's that."
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music--the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
"Motivation isn't optional. Everyone is motivated to do nothing or do something, either negatively or positively. "
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
"Yes, there is Nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.”
"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."
"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
Fear Knocked, Faith Answered.
Unknown
One learns people through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'"
" Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving."
" Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare."
Japanese proverb
Customers need something to participate in. If you allow your customers to participate in the brand, you have a much better chance of making an emotional connection that will have some sustainability.
"Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth."
The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.
"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching."
"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.'"
"I've never been poor--only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation."
Successful communication transforms your thoughts, will, and desire into action. It moves people. It transforms the thoughts, will and desires of others. What better word for this process than magic?
"I think success has no rules, but you can learn a lot from failure."
Jean Kerr
"Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life."
Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined, and the higher you go in the organization, the more important these qualities are for success. When it comes to leadership, they are almost everything.
Daniel Goleman
"What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you."
Ralph W. Sockman
"Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out the more life will be able to pour in."
Jim Rohn
"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing; others judge us by what we have done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
"Stand for one distinctive thing that will give you a competitive advantage."
"'Work' is not the evil side of your life, and 'personal' is not the good side of your life. Your life is what you make it, and all components of it ultimately reinforce and enrich the others if you allow them to do so."
The best cure for a sluggish mind is to disturb its routine.
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions."
Free speech is for bold people. Freedom of
conscience is for reasonable people.
Free enterprise is for honest people. Freedom of association is for energetic
people.
Gerald Johnson
"Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it."
"Ability is of little account without opportunity."
Don't try so much to form your character -- it's like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often."
Samuel Butler
Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Without a gut-level sense that you are ultimately in control of what's happening to you, you won't even consider the option that you could manage it better.
"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. "
"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."
"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."
"The art of peace begins with you . . . foster peace in your own life and then apply the art to all you encounter."
"You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."
"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door."
I will go anywhere as long as it is forward.
David Livingston
"Only that traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better."
"Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese."
"Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past."
"Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts."
There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus
"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame."
Perseverance: Fight the tendency to quit while you're behind.
Dave Weinbaum
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
If you want to achieve excellence you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
"I must do the most productive thing possible at every given moment..."
Experience is the worst teacher, it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
"Nothing shapes our
journey through life so much as the questions we ask."
"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."
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