BUSINESS
"To build your business, hire only the already motivated." -- Patricia Fripp
"Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful." – Gen. Robert E. Wood
"Sell a customer what they Want, Deliver what they Need." -- Rick Beneteau
"Any company needs a strong, unifying sense of direction. But that need is particularly strong in an organization in which tasks are differentiated and responsibilities dispersed." -- Christopher A. Bartlett
"You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!"
~ Chris Corrigan
"A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms."
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
"In business, one of the challenges is making sure that your product is the easiest to experience and complete a sale."
~ Mark Cuban
"If your thinking is sloppy, your business will be sloppy. If you are disorganized, your business will be disorganized. If you are greedy, your empoyees will be greedy, giving you less and less of themselves and always asking for more."
~ Michael Gerber
"In life and business, there are two cardinal sins.. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all."
~ Carl Icahn
HOPE
"In the depths of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
~ Albert Camus (1913-1960) Writer
"Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have."
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Writer
"The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." ~ Allan K. Chalmers
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." ~ Dale Carnegie
"He who has never hoped can never despair." ~ George Bernard Shaw
"He who has God in their life will always have Hope." ~ Marilyn L. Martin
God Bless You All,
Love Marilyn