Love is a great beautifier.
~ Louisa May AlcottHere's to all volunteers, those dedicated people who believe in all work and no pay.
~ Robert OrbenNothing is as strong as gentleness; nothing as gentle as real strength.
~ Ralph W. SockmanBusiness is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.
~ John David WrightSuccess or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacities.
~ Walter Dill ScottRumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
~ Will RogersYou will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
~ Charles BurtonIt is not what you pay a man but what he costs you that counts.
~ Will RogersPeoples' minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
~ Will RogersExperience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you.
~ Aldous HuxleyIf we could sell our experiences for what they cost, we'd be millionaires.
~ Abigail Van BurenThe difference between a cute little rascal and a potential juvenile delinquent is whether he is your child or somebody else's.
Character is what you are in the dark.
Love: Women's eternal spring and man's eternal fall.
~ Helen RowlandWhen your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
~ Henry J. KaiserHiring people that are smarter than you are proves that you're smarter than they are.
Never pay a compliment as though you expect a receipt.
Going to great lengths to sell a man something he does not want is a clumsy way of trying to get money. I have never really had to sell at all - only to explain the favor I expected to do the prospect. The principal holds true, whether one is selling a tangible thing like a rubber tire, or something intangible, like the future of the company.
~ Henry S. FirestoneAdolescence is a period of rapid change. When a child is between the ages of 12 and 17, a parent may age 20 years.
If you see a snake, just kill it. Don't appoint a committee on snakes.
~ H. Ross PerotHalf the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.
~ Dean HawkesA necessity is something you can get along without to buy something you simply must have.
~ Franklin P. JonesArguing with the umpire has never won a ballgame. But it has helped to lose many.
The most difficult thing for people to say in 25 words or less is good-bye.
If you ask enough people, you usually can find somebody who'll advise you to do whatever you were going to do anyway.
You can't save face if you lose your head.
If you have troubles, come in and tell us about them. If not, come in and tell us how you do it.
~ An unidentified army chaplainBetween the great things that we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.
~ Adolph MonodFriendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
~ Theodore RooseveltA road map will tell us everything we need to know except how to fold it up again.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
~ Beverly SillsOccasional failure is the price of improvement.
Most of us will never do great things, but we can do small things in a great way.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
~Henry FordThe way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
~ Dolly PartonOf all the things you wear, you expression is the most important.
There is only one way to get somebody to do anything. That is by making the other person want to do it. There is no other way.
~ Dale CarnegieLove lights more fires than hate extinguishes.
~ Ella Wheeler WilcoxA good lie finds more believers than a bad truth.
~ German ProverbThe secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
~ Pearl BuckTruth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
~ Han SuyinThe object of teaching is to enable those taught to get along without a teacher.
Unfortunately, answers that sound good aren't necessarily good, sound answers.
I am only an average man, but I work harder at it than the average man.
~ Teddy RooseveltYou don't get to choose how you are going to die, or when. You can only decide how you are going to live. Now.
~ Joan BaezBureaucracy is when the first person who answers the phone can't help you.
The trouble with experience is that it usually teaches you something you really didn't want to know.
The best way of answering a bad argument is to let it go on.
A coincidence is a small miracle where God prefers to remain anonymous.
To build may have to be the slow and the laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
~ Winston ChurchillThere is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
~ Hugh PratherThe job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.
~ Peter DruckerIt is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about important things.
~ Robert M. HutchinsIn some parts of the world people still pray in the streets. In the United States they're called pedestrians.
~ Gloria PitzerWhen other people take a long time to do something they are slow. When we take a long time to do something, we are thorough.
Yesterday is experience. Tomorrow is hope. Today is getting from one to the other the best we can.
The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy; The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.
There is nothing so annoying as arguing with people who know what they are talking about.
To entertain some people, all you have to do is listen.
No person is too big to be courteous, but many are too little.
The laziest people have the biggest plans for tomorrow.
It has come to the attention of this desk that too much comes to the attention of this desk.
~ Sign attached to the in-basket on a manager's deskCount your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years.
A lot of people are too busy trying to get ahead to do a good job.
~ Franklin P. JonesThere is nothing worse than a job in which the executive does not actually do something. Having nothing to do except make sure that other people work is not managing - it is busyness.
~ Peter DruckerWhat this country needs is fewer fact-finding committees and more fact-facing committees.
The real measure of your wealth is how much you would be worth if you lost all your money.
Hiding your head in the sand isn't the best way to hold your end up.
We need people with new ideas as much as we need people who will put energy behind the old ideas.
Few things are more upsetting than getting a second opinion that you like less than the first.
Nothing keeps a person's feet on the ground like having a little responsibility placed on his or her shoulders.
How much is a billion dollars? If you spent a $1,000 per day (or $365,000 a year) it would take nearly 3,000 years to spend it all.
Failures are divided into two classes - those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
~ John C. SalakSigmund Freud once refused to attend a festival in his honor, explaining "when someone abuses me I can defend myself. Against praise I am defenseless."