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Here are some quotes and thoughts I've collected over the years, particularly early in my career. Sometimes you'll even hear me quote them... The quotes I like to quote
Priorities are easy. Posterioritieswhat jobs not to tackleare tough. Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it. For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong It's amazing what you can accomplish in business if no one cares who gets the credit. Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have
let go. It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but…the marriage that
sustains your love. There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire.
The other is to get it. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. If our lives are the sum total of the choices we've made, then we cannot change who we are. But with every new choice we're given, we can change who we're going to be. Success is a very basic process. You don't have to do extraordinary things. Just do ordinary things extraordinarily well. It is highly doubtful that God can use a man until he has hurt deeply. Keep not your eyes on the gifts of God, but on the God of the gifts. Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. A gentleman is one who keeps his promises to those who cannot enforce them. Business has only two basic functionsmarketing and innovation. Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude
even than by mental capacities. My favorite quotes Inspiration is perishable. It's like fresh fruit or milk—it has an expiration date. If you
want to do something, you've got to do it now. A man without a smiling face must not open shop. The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. The secret of living is to find people who will pay you money to do what you would pay to do if you had the money. The good is always the enemy of the best. Managing energy, not time, is the key to high performance. Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom. Never express yourself more clearly than you think. Imagination is much more important than intelligence. Good choices come from experience. A problem well stated is a problem half solved. Getting the right people, and the right chemistry, is more important than getting the right idea. Values are the nutrient-rich soil of God's vision. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. Most people go to their grave with their music still inside them. It's better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you're an idiot, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. Anyone who is truly successful, continuously successful, must engage in thinking time and study time with regularity. Unfortunately, most people won't do that, and that's why they don't succeed. 'Tis better to have loved and lost Half the harm that is done in the world is due to people who want to feel important. If we treat people as they are, they will stay as they are. But if we treat them for what they might be, and might become, they will become those better selves. Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor. Love gives, then worries that it has done too little. Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else--and failing. If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it. An honest person will receive neither money nor praise that is not due them. If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. Life is an attitude. Have a good one.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. All that is gold does not glitter; not all who wander are lost. Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly. Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure. I've learned that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it. Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. The more human beings proceed by plan, the more effectively they may be hit by accident. It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience. But a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience. We blew a deadline, ticked everyone off, cost the company a bundle and we did the right thing. Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. Help someone think a little more highly of themselves, and rest assured they will think very highly of you. Whatever you do, do it until your eyes stare blankly. Only at that stage can you achieve success. Strong people always have strong weaknesses.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among the men the greatest asset I possess, and
the way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement. If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and
lavish in my praise. By fighting, you never get enough, but by yielding, you get more than you expected. Other great quotes Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out. One whose good deeds exceed his wisdom, his wisdom will endure; but one whose wisdom exceeds his good deeds, his wisdom will not endure.
Show me a millionaire, and I'll show you a person who has been broke at least three times. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. Poverty says that a child must die Nothing is quite so annoying as to have someone go right on talking
when you're interrupting. A leader is someone who can take a group of people to a place they don't think they can go. Implementing the second-best idea now is a better strategy than doing the best idea a week from now. It's a bigger risk to delay making decisions than to make marginal ones. The primary responsibility of a leader is to define reality. A great sailor can sail even with a torn canvas. The life of the creative man is lead, directed, and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. People who know the same things are not long the best company for each other. The Internet is an international network of tens of thousands of computer users who are constantly using their combined brainpower to think up fantastically innovative ways to waste time. I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down. The value of information is inversely proportional to its probability. There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can recalled and perhaps remedied. All liberality should have frugality for its basis and support. Wouldn't it be nice if our schools had all the money they needed and the Air Force had to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber? Daydreaming is its own reward. Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others. Beware of looking back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something you have never been. People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. Praise to a human being represents what sunlight, water, and soil are to a plantthe climate in which one grows best. When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together. Being very rich, as far as I am concerned, is having a margin. The margin is being able to give. The theoretician's prayer: 'Dear Lord, forgive me the sin of arrogance, and Lord, by arrogance I mean the following...' The real tragedy of life is not in being limited to one talent, but in the failure to use that one talent. It takes a pretty evenly balanced man to be as strong in prosperity as in adversity. When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting. Popularity is a form of success that's seldom worth the things we had to do to obtain it. If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. Money will buy a fine dog, but only love will make him wag his tail. Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad name. Let your speech be better than silence, or be silent. I color outside the lines because there's a lot more room there. When a singer sings, he stirs up the air and makes it hit any passing eardrums. But if he is good, he knows how to keep it from hurting. If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, and endeavors to lead a life which they have imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Good deeds speak for themselves. The tongue only interrupts their eloquence. Joy seems to me a step beyond happinesshappiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes, when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love. Are you worried about pressure? I look at it this way: Pressure is having to do something you are not totally prepared to do. It's easier to find someone with people skills and teach them technical skills, than to find someone with technical skills and teach them people skills. A smile is the whisper of laughter.
Tips for Thriving Here's some miscellaneous advice I've received over the years:
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