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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT 1937
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the
abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide
enough for those who have little."
JOHN HENRY JOWETT:
The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all
our money.
T.H.HUXLEY (1825-95) :
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in
life.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950) : You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
SHAW : Success covers a multitude of blunders.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT (1858-1919) :
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do
what he wants done, and self restraint enough to keep from meddling with
them while they do it.
ERNEST NEWMAN (1868-1959) :
You may help a lame dog over a stile, but he is still a lame dog on the
other side.
G.K.CHESTERTON (1874-1936) :
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the really great
man is the man who makes every man feels great.
WILSON MIZNER (1876-1933) :
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way
down.
ROBERT TOWNSEND OF AVIS-RENT-A-CAR :
Excellence and size are fundamentally incompatible.
"THE PETER PRINCIPLE" :
If you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere
else.
MARCUS AURELIUS :
Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you
have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought
them if you did not have them.
JOSEPH A, KENEDDY :
Life is not a 100 yard dash, but more a cross country run. If we sprint all
the time, we not only fail to win the race, but never even last long enough
to reach the finish line.
MARTIN NIEMOELLER, on Nazi Germany :
When they came for the Communists,
I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist.
When they came for the Social Democrats, I didn't speak up, because I
wasn't a Social Democrat.
When they came for the Jews, I didn't speak up, because I was already in
a concentration camp. By then nobody was left who could or wanted to
protest.
ROBERT TOWNSEND:
Admit your own mistakes openly, maybe even joyfully. Encourage your
associates to do likewise by commiserating with them. Never castigate.
Babies learn to walk by falling down. If you beat a baby every time he
falls down, he'll never care much for walking.
FRANCIS BACON:
A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket and write down the
thoughts of the moment. Those that came unsought are commonly the most
valuable and should be secured, because they seldom return.
No man goes before his time. Unless, of course, the boss leaves early.
A good teacher has been defined as one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart.
---- CHARLES DICKENS
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
An "acceptable level of employment" simply means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.
DAVID ROCKEFELLER:
If Necessity is the mother of invention, Discontent is the father of
progress.
It is by Logic that we prove, but by Intuition that we discover.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
--- Arabian Proverb
If you would know strength & patience, welcome the company of
trees.
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
When noted American economist Milton Friedman visited Hongkong, a reporter asked him, " If an economist assumes the presidency of the United States -- you, for instance -- would it be possible to set the country's economy in order?" With a smile and without a moments hesitation, Friedman replied, " No. For I would then be a politician."
Ann Landers Gem of the Day: A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
People of high intelligence talk about IDEAS
People of average intelligence talk about THINGS
People of no intelligence talk about OTHER PEOPLE!
It's better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you're a fool, than to open it & remove all doubt.
It's not how much it's worth, it's how much people think it's worth.
If you don't have a destination, you'll never get there.
It doesn't matter if they say you can't do it, It only matters if you say you can't.
In the long run, instincts are no match for information.
The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up & walk away from the table without a deal.
He who burns bridges better be a damn good swimmer.
When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience.
Efficiency achieved at the expense of creativity is counterproductive. Don't equate activity with efficiency.
There are two types of experts, and it's very important to be able to distinguish between them: There is the expert who can tell you what they think is going to happen, and there is the expert who can make something happen.
It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't fire.
Anyone who thinks he or she is indispensable should stick a finger into a bowl of water and notice the hole it leaves when it's pulled out.
Knowing when not to work hard is as important as knowing when to.
Peak performers can distinguish between goal-orientated performance, really productive work, and mere wheel-spinning.
If you can't take the best advice & forgive your enemies, then take the second best & forget them. The only way you can achieve true revenge is not to let your enemies cause you to self-destruct.
There is a place in the world for anyone in the world who says, " I'll take care of it".
Determination + Goal-setting + Concentration = Success.
Make decisions with your heart, and you'll end up with heart disease.
WHEN IT COMES TO GIVING, SOME PEOPLE STOP AT NOTHING.
work expands to fill the time available.
If you lie down with dogs........ you get up with fleas.
KNOWLEDGE, IN ITSELF, IS A WORTHWHILE & ENJOYABLE GOAL.
A good listener is not only popular everywhere,
but after a while he knows something. -Wilson Mizner
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
What is a true gift? One for which nothing is expected in return.
-Chinese Proverb
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -Robert Ingersoll
If you are sure you are right, you can afford to keep quiet.
I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself. -Jules Renard
He who wants to do everything will never do anything. -Andre Maurois
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
I simply tried to do the best each day, as each day came. -Abraham Lincoln
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. -Henri Bergson
Anger is never without reason, but seldom a good one. -Benjamin Franklin
You are bigger than the things that annoy you. -Jerry Bundsen
An individual is as strong as his or her prejudice.
Two things reduce prejudice- education and laughter. -Laurence J. Peter
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
---Aldous Huxley
Let us be a little kinder;
let us be a little blinder to the faults around us.
A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child. -Mencius
If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail;
If you can't be a sun, then just be a star;
It isn't by size that you win or you fail,
Be the best at whatever you are.
Well done is better than well said. -Benjamin Franklin
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
Take time to laugh- it is the music of the soul.
Wisdom consists of knowing when to avoid perfection.
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
When you are over the hill, you pick up speed.
Losing makes winning worthwhile.
You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track.
The most intelligent people we know are those who ask advice.
Be kind. Remember everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.
There is always free cheese in a mousetrap.
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
Beyond the mountains, more mountains.
A stupid man stays awake all night pondering his problems; he's all worn out when morning comes, and whatever was, still is. -Viking proverb
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. -Bertrand Russell
Education means developing the mind, not stuffing the memory.
Instruction ends in the classroom, but education ends only with life.
What we are is God's gift to us - what we become is our gift to God.
Pygmies placed on giants' shoulders see more than the giants themselves.
Sometimes silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.
One wonderful thing about a vacation is that it makes you feel good enough to go back to work and poor enough so that you have to.
Every bigot was once a child free of prejudice.
Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?
There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.
A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.
Too much agreement kills a chat.
What you dislike for yourself do not like for me.
"An eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
His thoughts were slow,
His words were few, and never formed to glisten.
But he was a joy to all his friends --
You should have heard him listen.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa
When good manners come to be a natural part of a person, he can face any situation with perfect self-confidence. A friend of mine was unexpectedly presented to Queen Elizabeth. Her friends asked how she'd known what to do, and hadn't she been scared to death? "Not at all," she said. "It was very simple. I have only one set of manners."
When in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things -- their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
It is wise to remember that you are one of those that can be fooled some of the time.
It is important that people know what you stand for; it is equally important that they know what you won't stand for.
Be bold in what you stand for, but careful in what you fall for.
A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.
One of the qualities I would certainly look for in an executive is whether
he knows how to delegate properly. The inability to do this, in my opinion,
is one of the chief reasons executives fail. Another is their inability to
make decisions effectively. These two personality lacks have contributed
more to executive failure than any amount of know-how lacks.
-- J.C.Penney
No man should come in to his supervisor FOR a decision. He should come in WITH a decision. When you give your supervisor a chance to probe, to say, " If you do this, what effect does it have in this area?" or, "If you do this, what will be so-and- so's reaction?" you give him a chance to examine your depth of thinking.
Four things are required of a judge: To hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.
Don't judge a man by what he says; try and find out WHY he said it.
The best way to judge a man is not by what other men say about him, but by what he says about other men.
Men of good judgement seldom rely wholly on their own.
Talk to a man about himself & he will be glad to listen for hours.
A man's judgement is no better than his information.
Don't condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
Blunt words often have the sharpest edge.
People who always bend backwards to please everybody soon weaken their spine.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last.
--Winston Churchill.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them couldn't
stand being laughed at.