Quotes, Thoughts, Philosophy

If someone said it way back when, how do you suppose a comment become a famous quote?  How does a popular quote become known with antique tools of yesterday?  Pause and ponder and here are some of my favorite quotes.  In case you want ot go way back, Ancient Quotes link many of which are still used today.

You measure success by how much good you do for others. - Zig Ziglar

The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter F. Drucker, Social Ecologist.

The worst thing you can do for someone is something they should be doing for themselves.  -  Tony Gaskins

Leaps look good in the movies, but in fact, success is mostly about finding a path and walking it one step at a time. - Seth Godin 

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Swiss physicist

.. the wider foundation the higher the peak. Always build the foundation. - Austin Miles 

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.  - Albert Einstein 

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.  - Peter F. Drucker

The wise learn from the mistakes of others, it's the fool that wants to make their own mistakes.  -  Tony Gaskins

We know we are at the end of our life cycle when we spend more time and energy protecting what we have than risking it.  Axel Schultze

Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity. - Warren Bennis (1925 - ) American scholar, writer

Results! I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.  - Thomas Edison 

Business Success is the result of The Right Message... To The Right Market... At The Right Time!   Who said this?

If I am to speak for ten minutes, I need a week for preparation... - Woodrow T. Wilson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do - Marianne Williamson 

In order to be a growing professsional, we need to be always on the fringe of our incompetency.  - David Luterman  Director of Education

What Story can you help them TELL, Once they Own the stuff you SELL?  - Andy Jenkins

Simplicity is the Ulimate Sophistication. - Leonardo DiVinci

The reason you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel is because it's night time.  Keep going, just a matter of time before the sun comes up.  -  Michael Hartzell

The only real help is self-help. Anything else is just designed to get you to the point where you can help yourself.  - Seth Godin  

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.    – Howard Aiken, Computing Pioneer

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory. - Andrew Carnagie 

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem. - Malcolm Forbes

Nobody cares much about taking your advice though they will use the time you talk to reflect on their own solutions.  - Michael Hartzell

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike. - John Muir

Watch your thoughts for they become your words. Watch your words for they become your actions. Watch your actions for they become your habits. Watch your habits for that becomes your character. You character will become your ultimate destiny.  - Chip Schwerzel  Coach, Sports & Health Mentor

If you care at all,you'll get some results.  If you care enough, you'll get incredible results.  - Jim Rohn

You will succeed through movement not through meditation. - Gary Hulbert 

Get your Ass out of bed and go to work!!  (Mother)  John E. Hamilton

Success comes from doing things over and over and over.... which makes  you get better and better and better along the way.  - Michael Hartzell

It takes a carefully trained expert to tease out the truth. - Arthur Green

Planting one small apple seed in the ground will grow for you more than one apple just for yourself, but an entire apple tree with an abundance of fruit to "share with others" and last a long time, plant many apples seeds and receive fruit trees for a lifetime. Did you plant your seed for giving to others today, only ...to receive in return fruit for many and to last a lifetime? - Kimberly Hall-Shahjahan  

"Good Enough" never is. - Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies

It's always your next move. - Napoleon Hill 

Competition is for competitors, not for me. - Adriaan de Kuijper  Owner of MediaStraw

The chief enemy of creativity is good taste. - Pablo Picasso 

I get mail; therefore I am.  Scott Adams American Cartoonist, b.1957

If you help enough people get what they want, you surely will get what you want - Zig Ziglar

Perfection is the lowest standard of achievement.  Doing is the highest.  - Andy Jenkins

Get it done or there will be an empty box on your chair. - Derek Stolpa

Success is what we attract by the person we become.  - Jim Rohn

Enough is sufficient.   - Marie P.  - Carey Azzara's grandmother  

Set your goals for what they make of you to achieve them - Jim Rohn

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. - Henry Ford  

The greatest problem of communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished. - George Bernard Shaw

T. S. Eliot - Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Oscar Wilde - Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.

If you aren't willing to travel eight hours in a blizzard to speak to a group of five people for free you haven't found your passion.  - Who said this?

Norman Vincent Peale - People become quite remarkable when they start thinking and believing that they can do things.

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. - Dale Carnegie  

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

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.  - Margaret Fuller, journalist and women's rights advocate 

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

If you have more money than brains you should focus on outbound marketing.  If you have more brains than money you should focus on inbound marketing.  - Guy Kawasaki

Either write something worth reading about or do something worth writing about.  - Benjamin Franklin

Keep looking till you find it, or at least till you find a reason to stop you from looking. - Yanal Abdel Rahim

Principles before Rules. Progress before Perfection. - Michael Hartzell

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt.  He has been given a large brain  by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. - Albert Einstein  (1879–1955)

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they ought to be. - Rosalynn Carter  

Use the "P" Triad for each decision: People, Purpose, Profit. - Michael Hartzell

My brother and I learned along the way about the things that were necessary to grow business......  We learned we were in the people business.  The key all along has been to get the right people around us.  You always find bright, goal oriented people and get out of the way. - James Milgard  Milgard Manufacturing

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense.- Marcus Aurelius (121–180)

Henry Ford - Either you think you can or you think you can't. Either way your right!

The hurdles to success: Skill, Will. Training fixes one. Clarify Consequence of Choice for the other.  - Michael Hartzell

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein  (1879–1955)

Planning before moving Prevents Pathetic Performance. - Michael Hartzell

Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity.- Warren Bennis (1925 – )

That which we persist in doing becomes easier – not because of the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do it has increased.-  Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.- Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)

In dreams you can be the person you want, but in reality you can only try becoming the person you dreamed of. - Yanal Abdel Rahim

My presentiment promotes possibilities parallel to progress over perfection and I am presently proceeding towards that process with powerful perseverance.  - Marcia Ridgeway

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.- Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)

Learning never exhausts the mind.- Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)

Walls and barriers are simply tests for dedication and commitment.  - Who?

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.- Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. - Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.- Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. - Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)

It is not enough to know, have the ability to communicate and teach.  - Michael Hartzell

Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas Edison

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. - Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)

Go beyond the checklist, offer "Heart & Soul".  - Michael Hartzell

Eleanor Roosevelt - Those who can see the invisible, can achieve the impossible.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.  - Roger Bannister

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.  John Quincy Adams

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein

Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle - when the sun comes up, you had better be running.  - Unknown 

Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.  -  Viktor E. Frankl 

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.   - Earl Nightingale

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein"

I am aware that success is more than a good idea. Anita Roddick (1942-2007) English entrepreneur and activist, founder of The Body Shop

The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not consider a sale complete until goods are worn out and the customer still satisfied. We will thank anyone to return goods that are not perfectly satisfactory...Above all things we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer. - L.L. Bean, 1912. These words were found in their first circular.