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Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers.
Little people talk about people. Medium size people talk about things. And big people talk about ideals and principles." Unknown
"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy
"A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
Dance - As though no one is watching you.
Love - as though you have never been hurt before.
Sing - as though no one can hear you.
Live - as though heaven is here on earth.
Some people say motivation doesn't stick. Well either does a shower-that's why we advise you to take one everyday.---
To accumulate wealth, you must study and emulate those who have acquired it before you."
"We all know a variety of ways to make a living. What's even more fascinating is figuring out ways to make a fortune."
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much."
I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation
Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere. The pessimist sees only the red light. But the truly wise person is color blind.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him
Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination
When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something. Plato
Wisdom is more precious than rubies. - Biblical Proverb, Proverbs 3:15
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
- Anonymous
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years. - Mark Twain
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. - Dalai Lama
"A gossip talks to you about other people. A bore talks about himself. A brilliant conversationalist talks to you about yourself."
"Fantastic things happen - to the way we feel, to the way we make other people feel. All this simply by using positive words."
"Always do the right thing. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." (Mark Twain)
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."
"Do not walk behind me, I may not lead. Do not walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss.... The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads and the boss drives." (Theodore Roosevelt)
"If you're not part of the solution you must be part of the problem."
"What should it profit a man if he would gain the whole world yet lose his soul."
"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed."
"A person who graduated yesterday and stops studying today is uneducated tomorrow."
"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."
"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today."
"Catch a man a fish feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and feed him for life."
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and dance; one cannot fly into flying."
"A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
"I praise loudly. I blame softly."
The cream always rises to the top."
"You've got to be before you can do, and you've got to do before you can have." (Zig Ziglar)
There is no greater happiness than freedom from worry, and there is no greater wealth than contentment
"Failure lies not in falling down. Failure lies in not getting up."
"The higher my rank, the more humbly I behave. The greater my power, the less I exercise it. The richer my wealth, the more I give away. Thus I avoid, respectively, envy and spite and misery."
"A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others."
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask is a fool for ever."
"He knows most who says he knows least." (Confucius, Chinese philosopher)
Smile tho' your heart is aching,
Smile even tho' it's breaking,
When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by.
If you smile thro' your fear and sorrow,
Smile and maybe tomorrow,
You'll see the sun come shining through; for you.
the five stages of innovation
1. People deny that the innovation is required.
2. People deny that the innovation is effective.
3. People deny that the innovation is important.
4. People deny that the innovation will justify the effort required to adopt it.
5. People accept and adopt the innovation, enjoy its benefits, attribute it to people other than the innovator, and deny the existence of stages 1 to 4.
Here are some examples of Pareto's Law as it applies to various situations. According to the Pareto Principle, it will generally the case (broadly - remember it's a guide not a scientific certainty), that within any given scenario or system or organisation:
80 percent of results come from 20 percent of efforts
80 percent of activity will require 20 percent of resources
80 percent of usage is by 20 percent of users
80 percent of the difficulty in achieving something lies in 20 percent of the challenge
80 percent of revenue comes from 20 percent of customers
80 percent of problems come from 20 percent of causes
80 percent of profit comes from 20 percent of the product range
80 percent of complaints come from 20 percent of customers
80 percent of sales will come from 20 percent of sales people
80 percent of corporate pollution comes from 20 percent of corporations
80 percent of work absence is due to 20 percent of staff
80 percent of road traffic accidents are cause by 20 percent of drivers
80 percent of a restaurant's turnover comes from 20 percent of its menu
80 percent of your time spent on this website will be spent on 20 percent of this website
and so on..
Remember for any particular situation the precise ratio can and probably will be different to 80:20, but the principle will apply nevertheless, and in many cases the actual ratio will not be far away from the 80:20 general rule.
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