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"Hard work spotlights the character
of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses
and some don't turn up at all." There is no such thing in anyone's
life as an unimportant day. There's no scarcity of opportunity
to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve
to make it happen. "A fellow doesn't last long
on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering." "Keep away from people who try
to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. " What's money? A man is a success
if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between
does what he wants to do. When you build bridges you can keep
crossing them. Every man is the architect of his
own fortune. "If you really want something,
and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never
give up, you will find a way." "The best place to succeed is
where you are with what you have." "There is only one boss. The
customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman
on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." "Work is about a search for
daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as
cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort
of life, rather than a Monday-to-Friday sort of dying." "The only thing that separates
successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to
work very very hard." "Accept the challenges so that
you can feel the exhilaration of victory." "You may be disappointed if
you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." "In any moment of decision the
best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is
the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." "I have learned to imagine an
invisible sign around each person's neck that says, 'Make me feel
important!'" "We know what we are, but know
not what we may be." "Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance, you must keep moving." "If we had no winter, the spring
would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome." "I don't care about money. I
just want to be wonderful." "When you reach for the stars,
you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful
of mud either." "The important thing is this:
to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could
become." "It is far better to be exhausted
from success than to be rested from failure." "Great persons are able to do
great kindnesses." "Every morning in Africa a gazelle
wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it
will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must
outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't
matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle -- when the sun comes
up, you had better be running." "Unless a man undertakes more
than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can." "Logic will get you from A to
B. Imagination will take you everywhere." "When nothing is sure, everything
is possible." "Opportunity is missed by most
people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." "Time is limited, so I better
wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance
to live this particular day right, and to string my days together
into a life of action and purpose." "Always dream and shoot higher
than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your
contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." "It's hard to beat a person
who never gives up." "Excellence is the gradual result
of always wanting to do better." "In the end, an organization
is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create
value." "People who are unable to motivate
themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive
their other talents." A good listener is not only popular
everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. "What we call luck, what we
call chance, is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
"Life begets life. Energy creates
energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." "A brand for a company is like
a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard
things well." "Have something to say, and
say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style." Let us never negotiate out of fear.
But let us never fear to negotiate. Of all the things that can have an
effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest.
We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but
all of this probably will not happen without personal growth. The fastest way to succeed is to
look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly
playing by your own. The man who will use his skill and
constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar,
instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. Carpe per diem - seize the check. Most people never run far enough
on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your
dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes
out of you. Do not worry if others do not understand
you. Instead worry if you do not understand others. One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in. Wayne Gretzky "Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying,
'I will try again tomorrow.'" Mary Anne Radmacher (1957 - ) "Treat people right and they
will eat nails for you." "So long as we love we serve;
so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are
indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend." "Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow
has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." "Time is the scarcest resource,
and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed." "If you work just for the money,
you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you
always put the customer first, success will be yours." "There is real magic in enthusiasm.
It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment." Courage is the first of human qualities
because it is the quality that guarantees all the others. Most of the important things in the
world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when
there seemed to be no hope at all. When ideas fail, words come in very
handy. Trouble is only opportunity in work
clothes. 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. Kind words can be short and easy
to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Success is the ability to go from
one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. When love and skill work together,
expect a masterpiece. "To get up each morning with
the resolve to be happy... is to set our own conditions to the events
of each day." The only thing we know about the
future is that it will be different. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams
unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to Dream "Never regret. If it's good,
it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience." "Diamonds are only lumps of
coal that stuck to their jobs." "Champions are made from something
deep inside - a desire, a dream, and a vision." Ideas are like rabbits. You get a
couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen. A pessimist is one who makes difficulties
of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities
of his difficulties. "The quality of a person's life
is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence." |