Power Thoughts
“Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.”
-Brian Tracy
“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”
-Oscar Wilde
“It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.”
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one’s financial success is due to one’s technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.”
-Dale Carnegie
“The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it.”
-George Bernard Shaw
“A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
-Albert Einstein
“Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.”
- Thomas A. Edison
“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”
- Ralph Marston
“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”
-Zig Ziglar
“It’s not how satisfied you keep your customers, it’s how many satisfied customers you keep.”
- Frederick Reichheld
“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.”
- Henry Ford
“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”
- Arnold Glasgow
“Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.”
- Dorothy Sarnoff
“The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.”
- Roy L. Smith
“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
- Warren Buffett
“Those that criticize the most, have accomplished the least.”
-James R. Sauer
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
- Samuel Johnson
“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”
- William James
“It doesn’t work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.”
- American Proverb
“If you don’t have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.”
- Zig Ziglar
“Movement without Measurement is Merely Motion.”
- Anonymous
“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.”
- Sam Levinson
“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.”
- Vernon Sanders Law
“Drive thy business or it will drive thee.”
- Benjamin Franklin
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing
- Mark Twain
“Success is going from failure to failure with confidence.”
- Winston Churchill
“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
- Marilyn vos Savant
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
- Henry Ford
“The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.”
- Robert Frost
“The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.”
- Casey Stengel