Things To Think About
- Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.
- “Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been” – Mark Twain
- “Conform and be dull.” Frank Dobie
- It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
- What do I consider the nearest approximation of happiness of which the present human nature is capable? Why, living on a farm which is one’s own, far from the hectic, artificial conditions of the city—a farm where one gets directly from one’s own soil what one needs to sustain life…Thomas Alva Edison… 1847-1931
- “I find the great things in life and the world are not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.” Oliver Wendel Holmes
- “Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.” Booker T. Washington
- “When we look into the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us to do, we realize, after all, what a beautiful thing it is to work, and to live, and to be happy.” Robert Louis Stevenson
- Isn’t it a shame that future generations can’t be here to see all the wonderful things we’re doing with their money?
- If you are set on making good somewhere, why not make good where you are?
- Beware of the man who says he has an open mind. He usually has a mouth to match it…
- One trouble with trouble is that it generally starts like fun…
- Opportunity often roams around, disguised as hard work…
- Happiness is like jam, you can’t spread even a little without getting some on yourself.
- A smile is a curve which can straighten out the bumps in the road of life.
- It’s hard for someone to keep a chip on their shoulder if you let them take a bow once in a while.
- I want to recommend a book, The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy, by Thomas J. Stanley, a very interesting and enlightening book.
