The only job where you start at the top is digging a hole. We might wish we could start at the top. We’d like to be the leader, the manager, the CEO, but we don’t want to start at the bottom and work our way slowly up the corporate ladder. Yet, it’s only through the...
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. (J. K. Rowling, British novelist) We admire talented people—Olympic stars, great orators, and artists of various kinds. We’re often in awe of their accomplishments and think they are the...
Dick Chitty attended Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas where he majored in automotive technology. After graduation, he applied for jobs at “the big three” auto companies, but could not get hired. He went to work in a gas station before becoming a high...
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. (Arthur Rubinstein, noted concert pianist) There are many similar sayings: “Love makes the world go ’round.” “All the world needs now is love...” As Rubinstein suggests, if you have a loving attitude toward...
A job well begun is half done. (Chinese fortune cookie) Many of us are procrastinators; we put off beginning a project for just about any reason. We just don’t want to get started. As a result, sometimes, we don’t ever do the job. What a shame! There is such pleasure...
Jim Perkins and I arrived at LexisNexis headquarters in Dayton, Ohio on a cold January morning in early 1988. Before going to Dayton, Jim and I had been briefed by the Toyota legal team. The Lexis lawyers told the Toyota attorneys that we could expect Jack Simpson to...
Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other. (Matthew Henry, 17th & 18th century minister and author) Have you heard the saying, “What you do speaks so loud I can’t hear what...
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. (Don Marquis, 20th century American humorist and author) This quote is really thought-provoking, isn’t it? Why would you have to keep honesty “under control”? Maybe the...
Understanding can wait; obedience can’t. (Rick Warren, pastor and author) Do you remember when your mother or father answered your “why” question with “Because I say so”? It was never a satisfactory answer, of course, but Warren suggests the attitude we ought to have...
Change your thoughts and you change your world. (Norman Vincent Peale, late minister and author) Everyone lives in the same world, but not everyone sees the world the same. Your perspective or worldview causes you to view society and world events quite differently...
Everyone thinks they are experts when it comes to advertising—especially auto executives. Yuki Togo and the Japan staff wanted a small, boutique advertising agency that would give special attention to Lexus and have new, creative ideas to attract customers. Jim...
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains; it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. (C. S. Lewis, 20th century British apologist) For many people the voice of God is rarely heard. In times of worship and prayer, they may...