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Food for Thought

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“The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.”

--Marianne Williamson

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

--Mark Twain

"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace."

--Amelia Earhart

“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion - and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.”
-- Ram Dass

"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."
--H. Jackson Browne

"When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."

--Leo Burnett

"Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't."

--Pete Seger

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."
--Arthur Ashe

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
-- Theodore Roosevelt

Only you can be yourself. No one else is qualified for the job!

--unknown

"The greatest investment I ever made was in people."

--G. W. Cummings, Sr.

People are our only long-term competitive advantage. Therefore, a leader is responsible for creating an operation environment where people can do great things. That environment includes investing in capital and processes to support the efforts of the people. This investment starts our business process, which identifies our key issues as quality, participation, productivity, flexibility and cash flow. Note - we focus on cash flow and not profits.

--Rich Teerlink, Chairman, Harley-Davidson, Inc.

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
-- Stephen R. Covey

"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

--Henry David Thoreau

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

--David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising

Quality individuals are always great hires. Those that lack quality are always bad hires. No exceptions ever to this rule!

--Jim Bunch, Green Manning & Bunch

The world recognizes nothing short of performance, because performance is what it needs, and promises are of no use to it.

--Phillip G. Hamerton

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

--Saint Vincent De Paul

It is in part the very uniqueness of every individual that makes him, not only a member of a family, race, nation, or class, but a human being.

--Helen Merrell Lynd

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