The Spirit
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Business Maxims
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the principal difference between a man and a dog. Mark Twain *** What we need “is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime” Adlai E. Stevenson *** "Most businesses are trying to hit a home run every day in a new ball park." Jay L. Abraham. *** Budgets depend on dependable income, and that's not so dependable anymore. Thom Forbes *** The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. -- John W(illiam) Gardner *** Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. -- Stewart Brand *** He went where only the lemmings will follow. anon. If the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, you can rest assured that the water bill is higher over there too. Bishop T.D Jakes *** Trouble looks back, worry looks ahead, faith looks up! anon. *** We saw what happened in New Orleans when people waited for the government to help. Bill Cosby *** “Free people don’t ‘exhaust’ resources. They create them.” Malcolm S. Forbes Jr. *** Eighty percent of the human resources department is transactional government compliance and vendor management. Brian Fayak
*** We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. -- Henry David Thoreau *** The best thing I ever did for poor people is to not become one of them. J. Paul Getty *** "Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives." Willa A. Foster *** When you show the value of your product you won’t have to defend its price. Jim Meisenheimer *** "There will always be a place for good quality content that stands out from the crowd." Steve Pavlina. *** The only way to stay ahead is to do the things you need to before you need to. Lin Stone *** "That's not short-term thinking. That's naive thinking." Jay L. Abraham. *** Failure is more frequently from want of energy than from want of capital. Daniel Webster *** What is valuable is not new. What is new is not valuable. Daniel Webster *** Energy has always been the basis of cultural complexity and it always will be. The past clarifies potential paths to the future. One often-discussed path is cultural and economic simplicity and lower energy costs. This could come about through the "crash" that many fear -- a genuine collapse over a period of one or two generations, with much violence, starvation, and loss of population. The alternative is the "soft landing" that many people hope for - a voluntary change to solar energy and green fuels, energy-conserving technologies, and less overall consumption. This is a utopian alternative that, as suggested above, will come about only if severe, prolonged hardship in industrial nations makes it attractive, and if economic growth and consumerism can be removed from the realm of ideology. Joseph A. Tainter |
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MONEY |
| Money makes you feel better
even if you don't like the stuff. Joe Louis.
*** I've known Tale Wins through many years of thick and thin. I've known Tale Wins when he was rich; I've known Tale Wins when he was poor: Rich is better. Lin Stone *** Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. *** A penny saved is a penny earned. Ben Franklin But do YOU know what a penny looks like? No cheating now. Click HERE and see if you can pass the test, spot the REAL penny in this series of common coins. *** "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." Woody Allen *** If you want to make a lot of money without working your best bet is buying lottery tickets and crossing your fingers. Greg Hughes *** Wisdom says to have a year's supply of food and be free of debt. Most of us have a year's supply of debt and our pantries are free of food. Thomas S. Monson. *** In the arsenal of revolution, inflation is the perfect weapon. W.B. Vennard *** Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes its laws. Amschel Meyer Rothschild *** Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand. Disraeli |
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Missy LaneousMy country, 'tis of thee, *** No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. George Bernard Shaw *** A Myth is as good as a Mile. John Archer *** Losing your temper with someone is like drinking horse liniment and hoping the other guy chokes on it. Bill Hardison. (William L. Hardison, roper, rancher and friend) *** A woman never is so tenacious of her rights as when she is in the wrong. Frederick Upham Adams *** Without music life would be a mistake -- Friedrich Nietzsche *** Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. Samuel Johnson *** Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. -- B.F. Skinner *** The fact that everyone else is doing it doesn't make it right ... (that) makes it pathetic. Jennifer Mattern *** A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not improve. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. *** Man has his will, -- but woman has her way. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. *** Vulgar people can't be still. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. ***
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. *** The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. Elbert Hubbard. *** I cannot put up with being stared at. Sigmund Freud *** I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose. Clarence Darrow *** The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. Clarence Darrow *** Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. Hosea Ballou *** One should always play fairly *** When I agree to play by your rules,
*** Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. Hosea Ballou *** Tolerance does not require abandoning one’s standards or one’s opinions on political or public policy choices. Tolerance is a way of reacting to diversity, not a command to insulate it from examination. Dallin H. Oaks *** I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather. John Burroughs *** "Cast my innocence into the scale and the glove of silk shall outweigh the glove of iron." Sir Walter Scott *** it’s common knowledge, not common practice. David Carleton *** One should always play fairly *** When I agree to play by your rules,
*** Woodman, spare that tree!
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts. -- Booker T. Washington *** Give us the luxuries of life, and we shall dispense with its necessities. John Lothrop Motley *** Men make laws for women to keep. Edwin L. Arnold *** -- it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place. Washington Irving. *** He was a master engraver who fell in love with Jackson's face, but forgot a few important details. Sara Paretsky *** There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. — Robert Orben *** The most comfortable place on earth is inside a rut that fits. Will Cook. *** Hatred is self-punishment Hosea Ballou *** "Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." - W B Yeats *** "Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom." George Washington Carver *** Smooth waters never make a good sailor Norman Jones ***
You can and you can't, *** "Gentlemen, today's game will be decided by four plays. Now, I don't know which plays those will be, so play every play like it's one of those four." Vince Lombardi *** A man in earnest finds
means, or, if he cannot find, creates them. *** Pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. John Ruskin *** And there's always a flaw in a donkey's will. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. *** Thoughts are mightier than armies. W.M. Paxton *** It is easier to build strong children than it is to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass *** Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted. William Hazlitt (1778-1830) A smile is the one curve
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer *** If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. -- Alice Duer Miller *** I run as if the track was made of egg shells. Jesse Owens *** Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. Reverend Larry Lorenzoni *** You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. Bob Hope *** If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either. -- Dick Cavett *** "Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." Robert A. Heinlein. *** The confused mind always says NO. Dan Lok *** If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst. Thomas Hardy *** “If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t.” - Lyall Watson *** “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” Anon *** A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. Horace Mann *** “A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.” - Erma Bombeck *** "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
George Burns.
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want to ask questions. If I had answers I'd be a politician. Eugene
Ionesco *** One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. Lady Nancy Astor *** Loud laughter is the sign of a vacant mind. Charles A. Callis *** "Genius unexecuted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks." Orison Swett Marden. *** Version 1 of any software is full of bugs. Version 2 fixes all the bugs and is great. Version 3 adds all the things users ask for, but hides all the great stuff in Version 2. -- Fred Blechman *** *** I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. -- Groucho Marx *** People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves. Goldsmith *** I have been privileged to know some of the ablest men on earth—men of many faiths, many professions, many accomplishments, in nearly 150 countries. But I’ve never known a man who knew enough so that I was willing to trust him with my everlasting life. Richard L. Evans *** Sometimes the gods themselves forget the answers to their own riddles. Edwin L. Arnold *** If you want your loved ones to have a great smile that lasts a lifetime, start them off right, flossing good and eating light. Reading this FREE book will give you a head start. *** illegimati noli carborundum |
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EMERSONNothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson *** The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson *** Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill. Ralph Waldo Emerson *** Every hero becomes a bore at last. Ralph Waldo Emerson *** No sensible man ever made an apology. Ralph Waldo Emerson *** The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. … Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every virtue rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty. Emerson *** *** Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use. Ralph Waldo Emerson *** The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. Ralph Waldo Emerson. |