Learn To Survive

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. - W. Edwards Deming


And you can't expect one without the other.

Set Sail

Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox


The last few lines of her poem:

'Tis the set of a soul

That decides its goal,

And not the calm or the strife.

Cowards and Fools

A nation which makes great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools. - Thucydides


We should all know what we are doing, and why.

Kind But Not Just

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just. - Samuel Johnson 


It is all too common for the two to be confused.

Going Gaga

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga. - David Ogilvy


Might drive your parents nuts though......

Problem Free Work

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.  - Jim Rohn


Employees should leave their problems at home.

Love of Books

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. - Anna Quindlen


I sure hope e-books don't make a full bookshelf obsolete.

Above The Dirt

I'm going to keep doing what I love as long as I can see above the dirt. - Anon


May you stay above the dirt.

Perceiving Desires

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  Steve Jobs.

Your Product

When in doubt, raise money from your customers by selling them something they truly need--your product. - Seth Godin


Produce; don't just prepare to produce.