Archive for the ‘Quotes’ Category

• A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it.
  William Feather

• A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
  Henry Ford

• As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. John Greenleaf Whittier

• By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. Robert Frost

• Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet. Robert H. Schuller

• If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business. B. C. Forbes

• If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem. J. Paul Getty

• It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. Tom Brokaw

• One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. Arnold H. Glasow

• Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. W. Edwards Deming

• There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell

• Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. Dale Carnegie

Eat a Dove chocolate and be rewarded with an amusing quote….. although the chocolate is my reward and I don’t usually need an excuse to eat chocolate but it’s fun to get to the inside of the foil wrapper to discover these quotes -

* How do you treat someone addicted to chocolate therapy?

* Chocolate doesn’t make the world go around but it makes the trip worthwhile.

* If at first you don’t succeed then skydiving is not for you.

* Chocolate is the answer. Who cares what the question is.

* The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.

* You can’t soar with eagles when you are running with ducks.

* Mistakes are proof that you are trying.

* Knowledge is power but chocolate pulls the switch.

Enjoy your chocolates!

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter F. Drucker

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight Eisenhower

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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Robert Half

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

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“If I spent as much time doing the things I worry about getting done as I do worrying about doing them, I wouldn’t have anything to worry about.”

– Beryl Pfizer

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• I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

• I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

• Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

• Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

• Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Leonardo da Vinci