My brother Curtis was a professor of architecture at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. I called him and explained my dealership facility problem. He listened and asked me to describe the style of dealership we wanted. I told him we wanted a luxury car...
You can’t do everything, but everyone can do something. (Max Lucado, best-selling author and preacher) It’s simple, but true, isn’t it? Yet, we often don’t do anything about the needs around us because they are so great. There are so many hungry...
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent. (Billy Sunday, 19th-20th century American evangelist) People sometimes feel their lack of achievement is because they don’t have any special aptitude. We see others making advances with...
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seed you plant. (Robert Louis Stevenson, 19th century Scottish novelist and poet) We all like to see the results of our work as soon as possible. Most of us are pretty impatient, so we...
The Lexus dealer roll out was divided into three waves. Wave 1 consisted of 101 dealers in the major markets to open by September of 1989. Wave 2 consisted of 44 dealers and wave 3 would have 50 in smaller markets. The two later waves would...
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone. (Charles Montesquieu, 18th century French lawyer and political philosopher) There is a lot of talk today about “marginalized” people: minority people groups that are often ignored...
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in. (Greek proverb) Gardeners and farmers like to see their plants grow and produce in a single season. Landscape architects probably have a more distant...
People don’t choose to be courageous; they just decide not to be afraid any more. (Bob Goff, best-selling author) Courage can be demonstrated only when there is some kind of danger that tests one’s character. Fear of personal harm or just...
The year 1987 was one to remember. Whitney Houston was belting out the song “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” and one of my favorite movies, Hoosiers, was showing in theatres. Ronald Reagan told Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” and the...
Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. (Jamie Paolinetti, TV writer/producer and former professional cyclist) Someone might argue that we know only what we know. We can’t work or...
Parents, investing time in helping your child develop needed character is way more important than tons of extracurricular activities. Whoever wrote this statement is certainly in tune with today’s ultra-active society. Parents are taxiing their...
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome. (Booker T. Washington, 19th-20th century American educator) We often regard someone who has achieved a high position in...
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