QUOTATIONS
WHO PAYS YOUR WAGES?
IT IS NOT THE COMPANY
THAT PAYS YOUR SALARY.
IT ONLY HANDLES THE MONEY!
David Ogilvy, founder of advertising firm Ogilvy and Mather sent newly appointed office heads each a Russian nesting doll with five progressively smaller figures inside. His message was contained in the smallest doll: "If each of us hires people who are smaller then we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, Ogilvy and Mather will become a company of giants."
"Search the parks in all your cities
You'll find no statues of committees."
Keys to successful management
Assess the people:
Hire people with business experience, intelligence, honesty, trustworthiness
Expect straight answers: Yes, no or I don't know.
"People will not change
until the pain of change
is less then the pain of staying the same."
"If you separate what you did right from what you did wrong, you can learn a helluva lot more from failure than from a big success."
"The strongest possible organization
is made up of decision makers
who understand people. "
"What a tangled web we weave
when first we practice to deceive. "
"When in doubt, tell the truth.
It will confound your enemies
and astound your friends. "
Remembering talk of a collective effort to buy him a seeing eye dog. "Didn't like that idea. Three things I wouldn't have no dog, no cane, no guitar. I associated those things with helplessness and begging. Mama had taught me to rely on my own brain. I appreciated people's kindness but didn't want people's sympathy. Sympathy for what? I was young and strong. Besides, I could play the piano and sing in tune. Watch out!
"If you are rowing the boat, you don't have much time to rock it."
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
"I'm a go-getter, and I can't stand watching people who don't help themselves. It may take me a while to act on a decision sometimes, but generally when I make one I stick to it. I can't stand listening to people complain when I know they're not going to do a thing about their situations."
"The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind."
"It takes everyone to make a happy day".
"The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall."
"Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for a serious error. Enjoy it"
"A's hire A's and B's hire C's."
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
"I lift my eyes to the hills. Where does my help
come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of
Heaven and Earth."
"We will not tire, we will not falter, we will not fail."
Patience is a virtue, but persistence to the point of success is a blessing.
Book of Matthew Chapter 7 - 7:16 By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Bible Extract
STICKABILITY
Stickability is 95% of ability.
Not many people believe they can move mountains
so as a result not many people do.
Never-never sell yourself short.
Only losers use Excusitis.
The thinking that guides your intelligence is a lot
more important than the amount of your intelligence.
An idea person makes money-not a fact person.
Those who rise to the top get there beeause they have
superior attitudes and use their good sense in
applied hard work.
Aetion cures fear - indecision and postponement fertilize fear.
When we do what we know to be wrong-we feel
guilty. Guilt eats away at self-confidence-others
find out and lose confidence in us too.
A big sincere smile gives you confidence and eats
away the opposition of others.
Only positive thoughts in your memory bank.
Put people in their proper perspective.
Practice doing what your conscience tells you is right.
Be a front seater.
Make eye contact.
Walk 25% faster.
Speak up.
Smile big.
IF
by Rudyard Kipling {1865-1936)
If you can keep your bead when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired of waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream-and not make dreams your master;
If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to bear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so bold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more-you'll be a Man, my son!