Shortcuts Learned from Someone Over 70 for Those Under 30 In 1850 an English explorer named George Everest was surveying the Himalayan mountain range when he discovered the highest peak in the world at over 29,000 plus feet. Today that mountain...
The best prayers often have more groans than words. (John Bunyan, 17th century English writer and preacher) We may think that the only effective prayers are those offered in highly liturgical services with elevated prose and moving sentiment...
People willing to trade their freedom for security will receive neither. (Benjamin Franklin, patriot, inventor, author) In our danger-ridden world, many people are so frightened that security has become the all-important issue of life. For them...
The great thing about dogs is their unconditional love. I can be disciplining Charlie and Wally one minute, and the next minute they see me as their best friend. They don’t go off and mope around about how they have been treated. They are right...
No one wants to fail, and my job was to help those around me be successful. If they were successful I would be successful. (Davis Illingworth, Jr, businessman, author) In the self-centered attitude of so many today, personal success is their...
The Product Planning Department in the U.S. started searching for a four-door sedan that was different from the Camry. These sedans were sold in other countries, but might also be sold in the U.S. as a near-luxury four-door sedan until the...
Smart people always say smart things. But wise people know when to say nothing at all. (Ed Kang, author, speaker, advisor) Words, words, words. We even have “talking heads” on the television—newscasters, talk show hosts, discussion panels. If it...
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. (Aristotle, 4th century B.C. Greek philosopher) Over time our habits of work, word, and activity reveal quite clearly who we really are—or, at least what our real...
When your organization has a spirit that prohibits failure, you kill a spirit of innovation in that organization. (Keith Minier, minister) What would it look like in your business or organization if you could prohibit failure? We might like to...
If you could kick the person most responsible for all your problems in the behind you wouldn’t be able to sit down for a long time. (J. Davis Illingworth, Sr, Presbyterian pastor) Wow, that hurts, doesn’t it (pun intended). It’s human...
When Chairman E. Toyoda made the decision to allow the U.S. to sell Flagship 1 in a new luxury channel, there were no plans to develop additional products. Fourteen hundred of Toyota’s best engineers had been diverted to the Flagship 1 project. ...
The more I see the less I know for sure. (The late John Lennon, co-founder of the Beetles) Many of us could say the same. Advances in technology and the discovery of both ancient and new features in our world cause us to realize that there is...
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