A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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courage
No depression in Los Angeles - 1933
Posted by
jonathan
Posted on
10:40 AM
Depression? We have no depression in Los Angeles; but I will admit that we are having the worst boom in many years.
quote by the president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce when he was asked how the depression had hit Los Angeles, January 1933
quote by the president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce when he was asked how the depression had hit Los Angeles, January 1933
Labels:
crisis
Scary questions
Posted by
jonathan
Posted on
10:46 AM
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
quote by Jules Winnfield, Pulp Fiction
quote by Jules Winnfield, Pulp Fiction
The second mouse
Posted by
jonathan
Posted on
10:40 AM
The early bird catches the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.
Labels:
opportunity
,
winning
Optimist & pessimist
Posted by
jonathan
Posted on
8:55 AM
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
quote by James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926
quote by James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926
Define it
Posted by
jonathan
Posted on
2:23 AM
You can’t improve anything if you can’t define it.
quote by Max Guinn, Deere & Co.
quote by Max Guinn, Deere & Co.
Labels:
innovation
The art of communication
Posted by
jonathan
Posted on
2:17 AM
Put it before them briefly so they will read it,
clearly so they will appreciate it,
picturesquely so they will remember it
and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.
quote by Joseph Pulitzer, Editor
clearly so they will appreciate it,
picturesquely so they will remember it
and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.
quote by Joseph Pulitzer, Editor
Labels:
communication
Optimist & pessimist
Posted by
jonathan
Posted on
8:50 AM
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society.
The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
quote by Gil Stern
The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
quote by Gil Stern
A hammer and a nail
Posted by
jonathan
Posted on
2:15 AM
If all you have is a hammer in the toolbox, everything looks like a nail.
quote by Bernard Baruch
quote by Bernard Baruch
Labels:
creativity
,
innovation
Branding / rebranding
Posted by
jonathan
Posted on
1:13 AM
Hanging a sign on a cow that says ‘I am a horse’ does not make it a horse.
Unknown
Unknown
Labels:
authenticity
Impossible situations
Posted by
jonathan
Posted on
1:05 AM
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
quote by Charles R. Swindoll, American Writer
quote by Charles R. Swindoll, American Writer
Labels:
opportunity
Not enough time ?
Posted by
jonathan
Posted on
8:02 AM
Don't say you don't have enough time.
You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
Life's Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
Life's Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Labels:
ambition
,
entrepreneurship
,
goals
,
time