Earn Your Wealth

Steve Jobs had more in common with a hardworking shopkeeper than with Bernie Madoff. - Don Watkins


Ill-gotten wealth is not equal to earned wealth.

Rocking Chair

Worry is like a rocking chair: It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. - Erma Bombeck


Relax.

On The Road

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. - Chinese Proverb


As my father said "Learn to soft-soap the older generation."

Going

I don't know where I'm going but I know no one is going to stop me. - Ariel Tweto


Sometimes you just go full speed ahead.

Try, Try Again

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong. - Leo Rosten


If you continue to think what you thought you will continue to get what you got.

Diminished Enthusiasm

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


Be sure your praise is well placed and proportionate.

THE Best

Very few people are the very best in the world at anything. Doing your best doesn’t mean you have to be THE best. Your best is more than enough. - Jessica Hagy


Your best is most likely to be THE best because so few people really try.

Intelligence

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - C. Archie Danielson


Even if you're a teenager.

You're Not Elsie

Show me a thoroughly contented person and I will show you a useless one. - Josh Billings


Cows produce better when contented but not humans.

Full-Time

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. - Sir Winston Churchill


Leadership is not a part-time job.

Sink or Swim

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. - Ann Landers


Then asked what benefit it provides.

Systems

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately. - Russell L. Ackoff


If you are building the system; no. If you are staffing the system; yes.

The Choice

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. - John Burroughs


The choice is between easy opportunities and distant adventures.

Precious Minds

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. - Anna Freud


Maybe, but don't count on it; it's too important.

Decisive Leadership

If I had to sum up in one word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act. - Lee Iacocca


Businesses should be dictatorships, not democracies.

Soaring

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. - Helen Keller


Make sure your people can soar.

Going Slowly

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still. - Chinese Proverb


How fast you go says a lot about your personality.

Lunch Menu

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! - Benjamin Franklin


Defend the rights of the lamb.

Fear Cured

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie


If you get bucked off don't just sit in the dirt, get back on.

Right Now

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to say it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own. - Blaise Pascal


Plan for the future; learn from the past; live today accordingly.

Blissful

My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not worry about failing. - Jeff Foxworthy


We all start out blissfully ignorant; successful people stay that way.

Unlimited Logic

Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination. - Nathan Campbell


Since both are infinite we have barely scratched the surface.

Unbuilt Palaces

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built. - Fernando Pessoa


Act on your dreams.

Forgiveness

It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on. - Real Live Preacher


Hate or forgiveness has no effect on the one it is directed towards.

Longevity

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. - Will Rogers


Critic's diatribes rarely become classics.

Your Choice

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


Your choice.

Switching Gears

If you feel yourself simply rolling along, it’s time to switch gears, because coasting can atrophy your dreams. - Jessica Hagy


Assuming your dreams are about how you will change the world.

Gossips

Who gossips to you will gossip about you. - Turkish saying


It takes two gossips to gossip.

Off Track

Your life will not go according to plan. Nobody’s ever has. So don’t worry if you get off track. The track was imaginary anyway. - Jessica Hagy


Planning does not preclude change.

Foreknowledge

The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers... That is also why in all countries women are more prone to utter prophecies. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


Deductive reasoning.

Your Epitaph

Consider your epitaph, not your resume. - Jessica Hagy


You can't change your record but you can change your future.