Paybacks

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. - Doug Larson


You pay for your own upbringing when you bring up your own.

Your Discrection

One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it. - Benvenuto Cellini

  Why small businesses often fail when management is passed on and, sometimes, why they flourish.

Liberty Contest

The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power. - Daniel Webster

  Only government can deny you liberty*. When he says "executive power" he's not talking about a corporate CEO.


*Individuals can deny you freedom, not liberty.

Goal Lines

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. - Doug Larson

  Control your goals; not  vice versa.

Super!

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman. - Doug Larson

  Be super.

Weed Survival

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. - Doug Larson 

  Weeds aren't sheep.

Mind Matters

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. - Edmund Spenser

  Why you should keep a positive attitude.

Be There

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. - Victor Borge

  Be it be spouse or customer.

Fool's Gold

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. - Seneca

  Why lottery money generally fails to enhance the lives of winners.

Melted Obstacles

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. - Orison Swett Marden

  Sometimes procrastination is not safe.

Threatened Danger

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promply and without flinching, you will reduce it by half. - Sir Winston Churchill 

  He should know. He took his country through WWII. Read about it.

Listen and Learn

You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do. - Anthony J. D'Angelo

  It pays to listen.

Emergencies

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was that which drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job. - Victor Hugo

  Focused visionaries are driven as if by an emergency.

Corporate Social Responsibility

There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud. - Milton Friedman

  You may choose to be generous, but it is not your responsibility.

Lazy Progress

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. - Robert Heinlein

  Not to be used as an excuse for staying in bed (except maybe on weekends).

Mining The Past

Those who mine history for sins are not searching for truth but for opportunities to denigrate their own society, or for grievances that can be cashed in today, at the expense of people who were not even born when the sins of the past were committed. - Thomas Sowell

  Another example of those who push others down to make themselves appear elevated.

Flawed

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. - Marcus Valerius Martialis

  Admit to a flaw when needed and the world will realize you are just like them.

Born With Liberty

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. - Charles Caleb Colton 

  The problem is that most of us in a land born of Liberty did not earn it, and are far too willing to give it away.

GIGO

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. - Bill Gates 

  Know your process before you automate it. Make sure your computer guys know your process as well as they do their computers.

Generosity is Not Altruism

Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance... - Robert Heinlein

  People are naturally generous but are forced into altruism (slavery by a nicer name).

Opposites Defined

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. - Elie Wiesel 

  He might be right but I really don't care.

Gratitude

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Go against the usual and repay those who shared their generosity.

Bad Memory

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. - Doug Larson

  I can't remember if I have a bad memory but I've never done anything wrong!

Collective Wisdom

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - Thomas Carlyle 

  The whole is never greater than the sum of the parts when it comes to people.

Dance

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 


  You can dance alone.

Easy Computing

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. - Andy Rooney


  Before starting any computer project answer "Is there a better (non-computer) way to do this?"

Parenthood Is Glorious

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. - Marcelene Cox


  Enjoy your kids.

Hell's Fury

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. - Milton Friedman


  Bureaucracies have no separation of powers. They make the rules, they police the rules, and they "prosecute" the violators.

Falling

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. - James Thurber

  Hold your own.

Which Way Does The Wind Blow?

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. - Bertha Calloway


  Stay at the helm.

Make Me an Offer

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world. - Steve Jobs


  Steve knew how to ask a question.