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GREAT QUOTATIONS

ON SERVICE

Albert Einstein:
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Einstein:
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw

Anne Frank:
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Confucius:
He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

Lao-Tse:
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profundity.
Kindness in giving creates love.

Edmund Burke:
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Walter Reuther:
There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

William Menninger:
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
--Donald A. Adams

Albert Schweitzer:
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Alex Noble:
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

Antigonus of Sokho:
Do not be like servants who serve their masters expecting to receive a reward; be rather like servants who serve their master unconditionally, with no thought of reward.

Horace Mann:
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
To the graduating class, 1859, Antioch University

James M. Barrie:
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Margaret Fuller:
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Marian Wright Edelman:
Service is what life is all about.

Marian Wright Edelman:
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edelman:
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Marian Wright Edelman:
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Marian Wright Edelman:
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back -- but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

Martin Luther King, Jr.:
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

W. E. Gladstone:
Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

ON GIVING*

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Norman MacEwan

If you always give, you will always have. Chinese proverb

With virtue you cannot be entirely poor, without it you cannot be really rich. Chinese proverb

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell

ON CHARACTER & INTEGRITY

Character is doing the right thing when no one is watching. J.C. Watts

It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot

Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Dr. Seuss

Self-discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back. W.K. Hope

What's right isn't always popular, and what's popular isn't always right. Unknown.

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better person. Benjamin Franklin

ON KNOWLEDGE

To be fond of learning is to be at the gate of knowledge. Chinese proverb

Knowledge is weightless treasure you always carry. Chinese proverb.

Silent and listen are spelled with the same letters. Unknown

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein

Like a garden, if knowledge is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested. African proverb

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all. Socrates

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless. And knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. Leonardo Da Vinci

The more we teach, the more we learn. H.P Blavatsky

The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing. Maria Mitchell

ON WORK & HAPPINESS

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life. Confucius

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. Chuang-Tzu

Dig a well before you are thirsty. Chinese proverb

ON PARENTING

To understand your parents' love, bear your own children. Chinese proverb

"Really Important Stuff My Kids Taught Me" -- It doesn't matter who started it and "Ask why until you understand." Cynthia Copeland Lewis

The fruit drops when it is ripe. Zen saying

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Lao-Tzu

Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts. Tibetan proverb

To teach is to learn. Japanese proverb

The future depends on what we do in the present. Gandhi

ON TEACHING OUR KIDS

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Chinese proverb

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. Chinese proverb

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Confucius

Study the past, if you would divine the future. Confucius

He who asks is a fool for 5 minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. Chinese proverb

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. Chinese proverb

When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet. Chinese proverb

Tell me & I'll forget. Show me & I may remember. Involve me & I'll understand. Chinese proverb

ON NOT SWEATING THE SMALL STUFF…

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. Chinese proverb

A smile will gain you 10 more years of life. Chinese proverb

An inch of time is an inch of gold. But you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold. Chinese proverb

Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think. Chinese proverb

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days: an old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend- or a meaningful day. Dalai Lama

ON SUCCESS

Albert Einstein*
a. "Try not to become a person of success, but rather a person of value."
b. "Imagination is more important than knowledge."

Vince Lombardi
a. "In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail."
b. "Winning isn't everything. But wanting to win is."
c. "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."
d. "The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."
e. "The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence,
regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."

Henry Ford
"Don't find fault. Find a remedy."

Anonymous
"I wish I knew 25 years ago what I know now: my life will be measured not by the
success of my career but by the values I instill in my children."

Never be afraid to do something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the titanic. (Anonymous)

ON INNOVATION & SUCCESS

Peter F. Drucker
The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.
Stephen Covey
You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

Winston Churchill
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

Stephen R. Covey
If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.

John Foster Dulles
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Tariq Siddique
If you are failing to plan, you are planning to fail.

Philip Caldwell
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

10. "Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy."
~ Marshall Field

2. "I don't meet competition. I crush it."
~ Charles Haskell Revlon (1906-1975)
US cosmetics businessman; founder and 1st president of Revlon, Inc. 1932-1962

4. "Competition doesn't create character, it exposes it."
~ unknown

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
unknown

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
Robert Schuller

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
- Mario Cuomo

The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
Benjamin Mays

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
- Napoleon
Innovative Quotes A-Z by A
China is like a sleeping giant. And when she awakes, she shall astonish the world." -- Napoleon Bonaparte, 1803

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin - Knowledge - Strength –

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.
Stuart Wilde - Change –

US software giant Bill Gates has high praise for China, which he says has created a brand new form of capitalism that benefits consumers more than anything has in the past. "It is a brand-new form of capitalism, and as a consumer its the best thing that ever happened,"

Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.
Ross Perot - Jobs - Entrepreneurs -

The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.
Li Ka Shing - Motivational - Profits - Encouragement
QUOTE: An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. Jack Welch, GE

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The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
Steve Ballmer - Technology - Learning - Innovation - Solutions

The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.
Steve Ballmer - Technology - Innovation - Products

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.
Steve Ballmer - Innovation - Customers - Belief

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.
Sergey Brin - Technology - Work - Innovation

Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world
Sergey Brin - Success - Innovation - Truth

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.
Michael Eisner - Innovation

When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, "I'm right, and everyone else is wrong." That's a very unpleasant position to be in. It's at once exhilarating and at the same time an invitation to be attacked.
Larry Ellison - Innovation - Belief - Change

It's fascinating as we continue to innovate and lead the way in both the application space and the database space. In the very beginning, people said you couldn't make relational databases fast enough to be commercially viable. I thought we could, and we were the first to do it. But we took tremendous abuse until IBM said, "Oh yeah, this stuff is good."
Larry Ellison - Innovation - Leadership

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
Larry Ellison - Innovation - Challenges

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs - Leadership - Innovation

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
Steve Jobs - Skill - Technology - Innovation

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
Rupert Murdoch - Change - Innovation

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
Li Ka Shing - Innovation - Strength

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It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers.
Gordon Moore - Learning - Change - Jobs - Technology

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
Gordon Moore - Learning - Technology - Challenges - Failure

Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that.
Li Ka Shing - Technology - Time

I am guided by the vision of what I believe this show can be. Originally our goal was to uplift, enlighten, encourage and entertain through the medium of television. Now, our mission statement for The Oprah Winfrey Show is to use television to transform people's lives, to make viewers see themselves differently and to bring happiness and a sense of fulfillment into every home.
Oprah Winfrey - Encouragement - Happiness - Technology –

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If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
Jeff Bezos - Customers - Marketing - Selling

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
Jeff Bezos - Customers - Commitment -

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
Richard Branson - Accounting - Business

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.
Michael Dell - Customers - Technology - Business -

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.
Michael Dell - Customers - Technology -

Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
Walt Disney - Customers - Success

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.
Peter Drucker - Branding - Customers -

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates - Learning

The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
Bill Gates - Internet - Capitalism -

When people talk about successful retailers and those that are not so successful, the customer determines at the end of the day who is successful and for what reason.
Gerry Harvey - Success - Customers -

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
Steve Jobs - Work - Success - Customers

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
Steve Jobs - Marketing - Challenges - Customers

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.
Ray Kroc - Customers - Success

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
Ray Kroc - Money - Customers - Success - Work

Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.
Ross Perot - Customers - Companies -

Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.
Anita Roddick - Business - Finance - Selling - Customers

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
Jim Rohn - Marketing - Skill -

I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.
Martha Stewart - Selling - Products - Customers

Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community
Sam Walton - Customers - Commitment

It helps a ton when you learn people's names and don't butcher them when trying to pronounce them.
Jerry Yang - Learning - Customers -

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 - Business - Customers - Management - Opportunity

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You have to learn to treat people as a resource......you have to ask not what do they cost, but what is the yield, what can they produce?
--Peter F. Drucker

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
--Mahatma Gandhi

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be...This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
--Isaac Asimov

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
--General George S. Patton

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
--Henry Ford

The purpose of a business is to create and keep customers.
--Theodore Levitt

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing,, layout, processes, and procedures.
--Tom Peters

It's a poor workman who blames his tools.
--Unknown

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
--Peter F. Drucker

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
--Warren G. Bennis

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
--W. Edwards Deming

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
--Thomas J. Watson Jr

Season's Greetings Quotes

ON VICTORY, DEFEAT & PERSEVERANCE*
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. Beverly Sills

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. Norman Augustine

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. Henry Ford

Every flower must grow through dirt. Anonymous

If you want the rainbow, you have to put with the rain. Titus Livius

He who limps is still walking. Stanislaw Lec

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Unknown.

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. Albert Einstein

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin