Archive for January, 2010

Quote: The Tide

“A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.”

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993

Quote: What you would be

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

Epictetus – Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD – 135 AD)

Quote: Work

“It’s not the hours you put in your work that counts, it’s the work you put in the hours. “

Sam Ewing

Quote: Decisions

“If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result. “

John Abrams, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place

Quotes: Escaping from a Problem and Value

“The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. “

Alan Saporta

 

“If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. “

Anonymous

Motivational Quotes – Unhappy Customers and Learning from Yesterday

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. ” – Bill Gates, Business @ The Speed of Thought

“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday. ” – John Wayne (Movie Actor/Director)

Some Quotes to LIve By

“Play by the rules, but be ferocious. “
Phil Knight, founder of Nike

“If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.”
Anonymous