Thursday, November 12, 2009

"Many persons call a doctor when all they want is an audience"
unknown author

Thursday, November 5, 2009

"He who has a hundred miles to walk should reckon ninety as half the journey" 
Japanese Proverb
"A bad system will beat a good person anytime"
William Deming

Friday, October 30, 2009

"Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you "
Larry Kersten

Monday, October 26, 2009

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
Voltaire

Friday, October 23, 2009

"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship"
Saint Francis de Sales

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

"Before you learn to manage other people, learn how to organize yourself"
Unknown author

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

"Be yourself. Everyone else is taken"
Oscar Wilde

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"
Shakespeare

Thursday, September 24, 2009

"We are interested in others when they are interested in us"
Publilius Syrus

Friday, September 18, 2009

"Blaming others is excusing yourself"
Robin Sharma

Thursday, September 17, 2009

"If it's anyone secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own"

Henry Ford

Friday, September 11, 2009

"Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself"
Andrew Carnegie's epitaph for himself

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

"If I had six hours to cut down a tree, I'd spend four hours sharpening the axe"
Abraham Lincoln

Friday, August 28, 2009

"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do"
Walter Bagehot

Friday, August 21, 2009

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
Rene Descartes
"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
Mark Twain

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

“Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”
Winston Churchill

Monday, June 22, 2009

"Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you"
General Alvaro Obregon
"If you teach a man anything, he will never learn"
Bernard Shaw

Thursday, June 11, 2009

"Humans are animals that makes mistakes"
Shigeo Shingo

Monday, June 8, 2009

"Less is more"
Robert Browning

Friday, June 5, 2009

"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volutional and are the portals of the discovery"
James Joyce

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

"If in doubt, throw it out"
Red-tagging rule of thumb

Thursday, May 28, 2009

"Perseverance is all"
Theodore Roosevelt

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

"Strategic planning is every manager's unfavorite activity"
Henry Mitzberg

Sunday, May 17, 2009

"Do not be afraid to go out on a limb... That's where the fruit is."
Old Proverb

Thursday, May 14, 2009

"It was tough to get better when you had so many telling you that you were better than you really were"
Jim Craig

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

"To be prepared is half the victory"
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

"There's good players and there's great players. To get to be a great player, you have to be able to do those things in those moments."
Paul Maurice, Carolina Hurricanes coach about Eric Staal

Thursday, March 12, 2009

"Culture eats strategy for breakfast"
Mark Fields, Ford Motor Company