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.

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

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.