We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
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Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. (Bruce Lee)
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We make our choices, then our choices make us. (Unknown)
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Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. (Peter Drucker)
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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards, and living up to them, is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it. (Seth Godin)Continue reading
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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. (Jack Welch)
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves, to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today. (Stewart B. Johnson)
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Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. (Oprah Winfrey)
Christmas with the Kranks = Business Lesson: Respond to Market Demands!
“Christmas With the Kranks” is a slapstick comedy based on a book called “Skipping Christmas” by John Grisham. The upshot is that the protagonists, Luther and Nora Krank (played by Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis), want to “skip” Christmas because their daughter is spending Christmas overseas in the Peace Corps. They plan to take...Continue reading
Jingle all the Way = Business Lesson: Serendipity Happens!
Way back before Arnold was Governor of California, he starred in a Christmas caper called “Jingle All the Way.” As workaholic Howard Langston, Arnie races all over town on Christmas Eve, in search of the blockbuster toy “Turbo Man,” which he promised his wife he’d pick up months before. Since it’s the only present on...Continue reading