Potent Quotables

Wasted Day

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
--Charlie Chaplin

What Not How

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
--George S. Patton Jr.

Stupidity & Genius

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
-- Albert Einstein

Big Government

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."
--Thomas Jefferson

Win-Win

"Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others."
--Peter Farquharson

Know Thyself

"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself."
--Michel de Montaigne

Wisdom in Years

"The years teach much which the days never knew."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love and Being

“You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Humor and Imagination

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
--Sir Francis Bacon

Genius Sweats

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
--Thomas A. Edison

Wiser Today

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
--Abraham Lincoln

Beautiful Potential

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
--Buckminster Fuller

Fair Weather Friend

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."
--Robert Frost

Absolute Value

"Everyone is a somebody to someone."
-- Jeffrey Fry

Ageless Laughter

"You do not stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing."
--Michael Pritchard

The Long View

"A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door."
--Confucius

Intelligence v. Wisdom

"Intelligence is when you spot a flaw in your boss's reasoning. Wisdom is when you refrain from pointing it out."
--James Dent

Love Sells

"Love what you do and then sell that love."
--Dr. Wayne Dyer

Knowledge and Wisdom

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."
--Sandra Carey

A Fool's Life

"He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever."
--Chinese proverb

Succeed Anyway

"If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; succeed anyway."
--Mother Theresa

Teach and Learn

“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”
--John Cotton Dana

Grow Happiness

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
--J. Robert Oppenheimer

Invention's Parents

"If necessity is the Mother of Invention, then dissatisfaction must be its Father."
-- Jeffrey Fry

Opportunity Abounds

"There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been."
--Charles Fillmore

Worry Not

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."
--Benjamin Franklin

Rising Opposition

"Don’t be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with the wind."
--Hamilton Wright Mabie

Guided Luck

"It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it."
--Baltasar Gracian

Action's Remedy

"Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve."
--Tehyi Hsieh

Eliminate the Impossible

"When the impossible has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how improbable ... is possible."
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

One More Thing

"Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one."
--Turkish proverb

The Good Fight

"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith."
-- 2 Timothy 4:7

Reject's Success

"A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success."
--Bo Bennett

That Which Lingers

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
--Alfred Lord Tennyson

Build Your Future

"Every man is the architect of his own fortune."
--Proverb

Always In Demand

"Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions."
--Roger Babson

High Hurdles

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
--Epicurus

Resilient Spirit

"Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit."
--Bern Williams

What Could Be

"If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be."
--Anonymous

Those Things Invisible

"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."
--Jonathan Swift

Work of Love

"The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life."
--Charles M. Schwab

Good Advice

"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
--Agatha Christie

Length of Success

"The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed."
--Charles Montesquieu

Share The Credit

"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it."
--Andrew Carnegie

Strike the Iron

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."
--William Butler Yeats

No Failure to Succeed

"I've failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."
--Michael Jordan

The Canvas of Life

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it."
--Danny Kaye

No Credit

"There's no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit."
--Ronald Reagan

A Kind Hand

"A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses."
--Chinese Proverb

High Expectations

"High expectations are the key to everything."
--Sam Walton

Get Over It

"Cry a river, build a bridge, get over it."
-- Unknown

Love's Virtures

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
-- Lao Tzu

Star Struck

"Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying."
--Harry Anderson

A Stretched Mind

"A Mind that has been stretched will never return to its original dimensions."
--Albert Einstein

Knowledge Changes Everything

"Knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find."
--Freda Adler

New is Better

"People are usually more interested in what is new, rather than what is better."
-- Jeffrey Fry

Great Friends

"There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."
-- Benjamin Franklin

Useless Work

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
--Peter F. Drucker

Learn and Know

"It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn."
--Hannah More

A Life of Passion

"I am seeking; I am striving; I am in it with all my heart."
-- Vincent van Gogh

Perfect Perspective

"It’s great to have gray hair. Ask anyone who’s bald."
-- Rodney Dangerfield

Perserverence Pays

"The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that precedes the victory."
--Karen Bliss Livingston

Fulfilled Happiness

"Happiness is mostly a byproduct of doing what makes us feel fulfilled."
--Benjamin Spock

Living Dangerously

"When a man knows how to live dangerously, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live."
--- William O. Douglas

War's Balance

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
-- Albert Einstein

Humor's Path

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."
--Henry Ward Beecher

Opportuny Lost

"The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity."
--- Helen Rowland

Age of Laughter

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing."
--Michael Pritchard

Judge of Character

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."
-- James D. Miles

A Great Society

"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
--- Greek Proverb

Time Flies

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."
--Michael Altshuler

Quality Faults

"It is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."
-- Bernard Berenson

Old v. Wise

"Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."
-- Benjamin Franklin

Perspectives

"No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect."
-- William Teller

Make A Life

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
-- Winston Churchill

Attitude's Effect

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but its effect will make it worth the effort."
--Jeffrey Fry

A Life of Trust

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."
--Frank Crane

Committee's Dead End

"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled."
--Sir Barnett Cocks

Watch What You Do

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
---- Andrew Carnegie

Curiosity's Cure?

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
--Dorothy Parker

Life of Miracles

"Life is full of miracles, but they’re not always the ones we pray for."
--- Eve Arden

Dream The Future

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."
--Victor Hugo

Rare Opportunity

"Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him."
--Bayard Taylor

When To Talk

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
--Plato

Dare To Fail

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
--Robert F. Kennedy

Skill Set

"Every expert began as an amateur."
-- Jeffrey Fry

Crowd Control

"Business today consists in persuading crowds."
--T. S. Eliot

God's In the Effort

"God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try."
--Mother Teresa

Luck Factor

"Of course I believe in luck. How otherwise to explain the success of some people you detest?"
--Jean Cocteau

Power to Change

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
--Charles Darwin

Fear of Power

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."
--Marianne Williamson

Risk Taker

"If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business."
--Ray Kroc

Make Yourself Useful

"You can render to humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself."
--- Wallace Whattles

Built to Win

"Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream."
--Emmitt Smith

The Scent of Victory

"Winning is like a deodorant. It covers up a lot that stinks."
--Doc Rivers

The Door of Happiness

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
--Helen Keller

Life Undone

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing."
-- George Bernard Shaw

History in the Making

"The main thing is to make history, not to write it."
--Otto von Bismarck

Fear and Undertanding

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
--Marie Curie

Conviction

"A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight."
-- Jeffrey Fry

Think You Can

"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right."
--Henry Ford

Time Sink

"A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours."
--Milton Berle

Happiness Moves

"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Busy Makes Better

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
--Henry David Thoreau

Half Life

"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children."
--Clarence Darrow

Biased Man

"Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true."
--Francis Bacon

Our Inner Limits

"We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything."
--Blaise Pascal

The Sign of Success

"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important."
--Mary Kay Ash

A Man's Value

"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."
--Albert Einstein

Escape the Outdated

"The difficulty does not lie in finding new ideas, but in escaping the long outdated belief in old ones."
-- Jeffrey Fry

Short and Sweet

"A short saying often contains much wisdom."
--Sophocles

Pick Battles

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
--Jonathan Kozol

Genius Inspired

"Inspiration and genius -- one and the same."
--Victor Hugo

Wealth In Intelligence

"Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary."
--Julius Rosenwald

Never Tried

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
--Theodore Roosevelt

Blind Faith

"Some things have to be believed to be seen."
--Ralph Hodgson

Speed Bumps

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
--Henry Ford

Immortality

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying."
--Woody Allen

Ability's Opportunity

"Ability is of little account without opportunity."
-- Nepoleon Bonaparte

Brain Focus

"Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary."
--Ray Knight

Creativity Unchained

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."
--Erich Fromm

Hard as Diamonds

"Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck at it no matter how much heat or pressure they faced."
--Jeffrey Fry

Your Consent

"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Mistaken Name

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
--Oscar Wilde

Tenacity's Voracity

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."
--Louis Pasteur

Risky Business

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
--George S. Patton

What We Remember

"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
--Martin Luther King Jr.

Humorless People

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road."
--Henry Ward Beecher

Education's Aim

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
--Herbert Spencer

Just Do It

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
--John Wooden

Excellence in Failure

"Reward excellent Failures; punish mediocre Successes."
-- Phil Daniels

Moment of Decision

"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
--Theodore Roosevelt

Curiousity's Relativity

"Curiosity is more important than knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein

An Unselfish Effort

"The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves."
--Helen Keller

How We Know Our Friends

"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."
--John Churton Collins

False Hopes

"The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so."
--Rene Dubos

Learn the Fool

"To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool."
-- Jeffrey Fry

The Canvas of Life

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it."
--Danny Kaye

Happiness' Point of View

"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."
--Martha Washington

Point the Way

"The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way."
--Henry Miller

The Price of Quality

"I have always believed that quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten."
--Stanley Marcus

Businesses Beating Heart

"You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart."
--Thomas J. Watson

Facts Ignored

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
--Aldous Huxley

A Rich Heart

"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."
--Henry Ward Beecher

Born To Succeed

"Men are born to succeed, not fail."
--Henry David Thoreau

Details

"Trifles make perfection, and prefection is no trifle."
--Michelangelo

Integrity Rules

"Integrity has no need of rules."
--Albert Camus

Composed Enthusiast

"The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool."
--William McFee

The Ideal Distance

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."
--John Galsworthy

Insight's Value

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

Uncommon Sense

"I read. I study. I examine. I listen. I reflect, and out of all this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can."
-- Marquis de Lafayette

Experimental Life

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

True Happiness

"Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness."
--Ray Lyman Wilbur

Character Revealed

"Entrepreneurship does not build character; it reveals character."
-- Jeffrey Fry

Fool's Prophet

"Jesters do often prove prophets."
--William Shakespeare

Perfection's Progress

"Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time."
--Voltaire

Labor Lost

"Learning without thought is labor lost."
--Confucius

Thanksgiving Frequency

"Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow."
--Edward Sandford Martin

Great Deeds

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."
--Albert Camus

Well Done

"The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Know Best

"The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught."
--Marquis de Vauvenargues

What is Luck?

"There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all."
-- Jeffrey Fry

Success' Parentage

"Success has many fathers. Failure is an orphan."
-- Unknown

Attention to Detail

"Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich."
--Henry Ford

Shared Insterests

"The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interests to promote yours."
-- Jean de La Bruyère

Believe In Great Things

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
--Anatole France

Benefit Others

"An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves."
--Lydia Child

Perservere to Victory

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
--Napoleon Bonaparte

Life Expansive

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
--Anais Nin

Lead By Asking

"Leadership begins by asking how you can make things better?"
-- Jeffrey Fry

Impossible Fun

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
--Walt Disney

Real Change

"Diapers and politicians need to be changed for the same reason."
--Anonymous

Scoring Business

"Business is a good game, lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money."
-- Nolan Bushnell

Motivation Management

"Management is nothing more than motivating other people."
--Lee Iacocca

First Class

"Once you have gone first class, everything else is coach."
-- Jeffrey Fry

"The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both."
--James Michener

A Mule's Kick

"There is no education in the second kick of a mule."
--Proverb

Don't Say, Do

"When all is said and done, more is said than done."
-- Hilary Johns

Good Things

"Most of the good things civilization has achieved are the result of somebody's seeing, in his mind's eye, how to do something better, or make something better."
--Cason J. Callaway

Explain Why

"You can spend an hour explaining how to slice a lemon--if you first explain why it is important to know."
--Ken Futch

Age Discovered

"You discover you are old when your regrets replace your dreams."
-- Jeffrey Fry

Excellence Known

"Excellence in any undertaking can be found in details that most people barely notice, but those who know know."
-- Gene Griessman

Opportunities' Perspective

"Opportunities always look bigger going than coming."
-- Proverb

Ability's Demand

"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."
--Malcolm Forbes

Where The Sun Shines

"Just when you think the sun shines out of your butt, all you have is an illuminated landing area."
--Nolan Bushnell

Worth The Fight?

"These are called trinkets, I know...It is trinkets these soldiers fight for."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Truly Whole

"Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole."
-- Richard M. Nixon

Hell And Beyond

"When you are going through hell, keep going."
-- Winston Churchill

Greatest Compliment

"The greatest compliment you can receive is being counted on."
-- John Maxwell

Personal Attitude

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
--Hugh Downs

Resolve to Perform

"Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve."
--Benjamin Franklin

Imagination's Importance

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
--Albert Einstein

Life: Purpose & Meaning

"The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give it away."
-- David Viscott

Face Change

"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."
-- James Arthur Baldwin

Future Empires

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
--Winston Churchill

Life Backwards & Forwards

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."
--Soren Kierkegaard

Inflated Worth

“It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.”
-- Malcolm Forbes

Opportunity's Clothes

"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
--Henry J. Kaiser

Unexpected Success

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
-- Henry David Thoreau

Experience's Perspective

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."
--Aldous Huxley

A True Measure

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
--Ann Landers

Failure Avoided

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
--Thomas Edison

Leaders Extrodinaire

"Great leadership makes ordinary people into extraordinary people."
-- Jeffrey Fry

Success in Numbers

"Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be."
-- Charlie Brower

Entrepreneur's Ante

"You don't deserve to be called an entrepreneur unless you've mortgaged your house to the business."
--Edward S. (Ted) Rogers

Financing's Trail

"Financing is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears."
--Robert Sarnoff

Think It First

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
--Albert Szent Gyorgyi

Discover New Lands

"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
--Andre Gide

Success & Failure

"Success represents the 1% of your work that results from the 99% that is called failure."
--Soichiro Honda

The Expense of Poverty

"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
--James Baldwin

Conformist's Bane

"No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist."
--J. Paul Getty

Need to Know

"All education amounts to is knowing how to find out what you need to know."
-- Dr. Robert Engass

Happiness' Heartbeat

"Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse."
--Adam Smith

Dream's Lifespan

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
--James Dean

The Right Customers

"Though the customer is always right, there are some customers you do not want."
-- Jeffrey Fry

Obstacles Measure the Man

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."
--Booker T. Washington

Determination's Difference

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."
--Tommy Lasorda

The Greatest Ability

"I believe the greatest ability to possess is the ability to find, develop, and promote abilities in other people."
-- Jeffrey Fry

Buy In

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”
– John Maxwell

Exclusive Knowledge

"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."
--Aristotle Onassis

Do or Do Not

"Do ... or do not. There is no try."
-- Yoda

Lost Time

"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever."
--Samuel Smiles

What Not How

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
--George S. Patton Jr.

Catch Bricks

"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."
--David Brinkley

Persistent People

"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."
--Edward Eggleston

Preparation for Success

"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."
--Henry Ford

Energy and Presistence

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
--Benjamin Franklin

Growing Up

"Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional."
-- Bobby Orbach

Marturity

"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature."
--Dave Barry

Keep Going

"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. The desire and ability to press on has and always will solve the problems of the human race and divide those who achieve from those who might have been."
-- Jeffrey Fry

Manners Matter

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Unseen Potential

"We don't know who we are until we see what we can do."
--Martha Grimes

Beyond Yourself

"True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself."
-- Jeffrey Fry

Silence

"Silence gives consent, or a horrible feeling that nobody's listening."
--Franklin P. Jones

A Job Begun

"It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish."
--J.R.R. Tolkien

Watch and Learn

"You can observe a lot just by watching."
--Yogi Berra

Show and Tell

"Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I will learn. Involve me and I will understand."
-- Confucius

Marketing Mastered

"Marketing takes a day to learn, but a lifetime to master."
-- Phil Kotler

Don't Interrupt Doers

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."
--Chinese Proverb

Destiny Achieved

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
--William Jennings Bryan

Life Outlasted

"The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."
--James Truslow Adams

Opportunity Rises

"Opportunity arises when a seemingly impossible task is met with an improbable solution."
-- Jeffrey Fry

Love Triumphant

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."
--H.L. Mencken

A Different Road

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
--H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A Handful of Change

"Never doubt that a handful of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
--Margaret Mead

Ability and Character

"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
-- John Wooden

Oppotunist's Sandwich

Message"An Opportunist can hand out baloney disguised as food for thought."
-- Karl Wagner

Opportunitiy's Overalls

"Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
-- Thomas Alva Edison

Perpetual Optimism

"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."
-- Colin Powell

Keep on Trying

"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

Looking at Difficutly

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist see the opportunity in every difficulty."
-- Winston Churchill

Liberty's Dangers

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
-- Lois D. Brandeis

Perception is Reality

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
--Norman Vincent Peale

Vison and Action

"Vision without action is merely a dream, action without vision is merely passing time, but vision with action can change the world"
-- Nelson Mandela

Decorum

"When you're wrong, admit it. When you're right, shut up."
-- Ogden Nash

Vision Does Not Count

"Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs."
--Vaclav Havel

Political Choices

"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
-- J. K. Galbraith

Life's Requirements

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
-- Albert Einstein

Invent the Future

"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
-- Alan Kay

Walk the Talk

"The essence of a culture is in its performance, not its proclamations."
-- Andrew Vachss

Core Leadership

"There is nothing more inspiring and stimulating than being in the company of optimists. It is the core of true leadership."
-- Thomas Joyce

Price of Security

"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security."
-- Benjamin Franklin

Great Attempts

"The great are they who attempt the difficult things lesser men avoid."
-- Indian Proverb

Luck Counts

"Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves."
--Larry King

Character Counts

“The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where they stand at times of challenge and controversy."
-- Martin Luther King

Future Investments

"Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one."
--H.W. Lewis

Solve Problems

"Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve."
--Roger Lewin

Portal to Success

"Confidence is the hinge on the door to success."
--Mary O'Hare Dumas

Find Talented People

“I find my chances for success improve when I associate with a few talented people as opposed to a plethora of mediocre ones.”
-- Jeffrey Fry

Enjoy Wealth

"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."
--Benjamin Franklin

Sharp Focus

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
--Mark Twain

Glory in Rising

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
--Confucius

Fuzzy Logic

“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."
--Ansel Adams

Earth's Owners

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."
--Native American Proverb

Better Done

“Well done is better than well said."
--Benjamin Franklin

Ideas Need Action

“An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied."
--Arnold Glasow

Find It

“I do not seek, I find."
--Pablo Picasso

Balanced Thought

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
--Aristotle

Proof In The Imagination

“What is now proved was once only imagined."
--William Blake

Keep It Up

“He conquers who endures."
--Persius

Stay With The Problem

“It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
--Albert Einstein

Perserverance's Fine Line

“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
--Henry Ward Beecher

Green Grass

"The grass may look greener on the other side, but it's just as hard to cut.”
-- Little Richard

Keep on Walking

“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking."
--Buddhist Saying

Human Differentiation

“What differentiates humans from all other creatures is the deep and unquenching desire to be appreciated.”
-- Jeffrey Fry

Real Humility

“Real humility is to know the extent of one's arrogance.”
-- Winston Hodge

Play Big

“Playing small doesn't serve the world in any way.”
-- Nelson Mandela

Short and Steady

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."
--Walter Elliott

Rise After the Failure

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Destiny is Internal

“No matter who you are, no matter what you aspire to, no matter what you have attempted in the past, the way you feel about yourself now will determine the outcome of anything that you do.”
--Ray Shapley, Sr.

One's Own Ignorance

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
--Confucius

A Mind Stretched

“Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

Learning Counts

“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
--John Wooden

Schooling's Not Education

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
-Mark Twain

Distaster's Opportunity

“I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity."
--John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

Hope On A Feeling

“Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
--Jean Kerr

Supreme Happiness

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
--Victor Hugo

Good From Bad Judgement

“Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."
--Rita Mae Brown

High Aspirations Small Needs

“Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs."
--William Howard Stein

No Good Contract

“There is no such thing as a good contract when dealing with a bad man.”
-- Mark Murdock

Invincible Determination

“An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men."
--Dr. Thomas Fuller

Change Thyself

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
--Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Vitality Restarts

“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
--F. Scott Fitzgerald

No Time Like Today

“A year from now you may wish you had started today."
--Karen Lamb

Self Waste

“We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves."
--George M. Adams

Maybes

“For all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are "It might have been!"”
-- William Wordsworth

Life's Fear

“Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning."
--John Henry Cardinal Newman

Life's Years

“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
--Abraham Lincoln

Use Time Wisely

“Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of."
--Charles Richards

Optimist v. Pessimist

“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."
--Bill Vaughan

Character Has No Price

” He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."
--Henry Ward Beecher

Smiles are Ageless

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."
--Mark Twain

A Path with No Obstacles

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."
--Frank A. Clark

Strength

“I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders."
--Jewish Proverb

Perfection

“The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form."
--Stanley J. Randall

Balanced

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
--Chinese Proverb

What is Really Important

“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."
--Doug Larson

A New System

“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the Initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new.”
--Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513

Soul of Friendship

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
--Aristotle

Success in Your Child's Eyes

"You can use most any measure when you're speaking of success.
You can measure it in a fancy home, expensive car or dress.
But the measure of your real success is one you cannot spend—
It's the way your child describes you when talking to a friend."
-- Martin Baxbaum

Wisdom Conquers Fear

“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
--Bertrand Russell

Lead with Dreams

"A true leader follows the dreams of those he leads."
--Douglas Whatley

Fear & Courage

“Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others."
--Robert Louis Stevenson

Leaders' Vision

“Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them."
--Robert Jarvik

Leaders' Balance

“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit."
--John C. Maxwell

Leaders Make Leaders

“Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders."
--Tom Peters

Leadership Floats

”A leader is a dealer in hope."
--Napoleon Bonaparte

Foolish Grief

“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."
--Cicero

Lead By Example

“You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself."
--Gene Mauch

Kings and Pawns

“After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.”
—Italian proverb

Sharpen Your Ax

“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I ’d spend six sharpening my ax.”
—Abraham Lincoln

You Fail Alone

“There is no feeling quite so lonely as failure.”
-- Jeffrey Fry

Try, Try, Try

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
-- Beverly Sills

You Can't Please Everyone

“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone."
--Bill Cosby

Enthusiastic Failure

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
--Winston Churchill

Failure Equals Success

“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate."
--Thomas John Watson, Sr.

What Matters

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
--Dr. Seuss

Originality

“You were born an original. Don't die a copy."
--John Mason

Lincoln on Being Human

“Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed."
--Abraham Lincoln

Fear or Faith

"Fear and faith cannot survive at the same time, so sustain and choose faith."
-- Jim Ledoux

Despair's Antidote

“Action is the antidote to despair."
--Joan Baez

Do Good in Bad Times

“It is not so important what deeds we do when times are good, but what good we do in bad times.”
-- Jeffrey Fry

Success Waits for No Man

“I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it."
--Jonathan Winters

Commitment's Magic

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe