Thoughts 31OCT2013

Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once - Kurdish Proverb

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Ahjar xih u gharef milli zaghzugh u ibleh - Maltese Proverb

Better (marry) an old but wise man than a young but foolish man - Maltese Proverb

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A person is a person because of other persons - South Sotho Proverb

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Con el tiempo y la paciencia se adquiere la ciencia - Spanish Proverb

Patience, time and money accommodate all things - Spanish Proverb

Thoughts 30OCT2013

LEADERS' ENERGIZED

The world of the '90s and beyond will not belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business and jargon we use to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders - people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO of General Electric - extracted from "Speaker's Sourcebook II", Glen Van Ekeren, Prentice Hall, 1994

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There's no substitute for experience - Spanish Proverb

Thoughts 29OCT2013

WINNING

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while ... you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit.

  

Unfortunately, so is losing. Make the most of what we have. Make winning, not losing, a habit - Vince Lombardi

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We're all a little crazy in one way or another - Spanish Proverb

Thoughts 28OCT2013

ON COURAGE

Courage ... is nothing less than the power of overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there ids always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson (1894-1961) Journalist - cited in "Bits & Pieces"

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Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce - Spanish Proverb

Thoughts 25OCT2013

ON EXCELLENCE

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Mario Andretti - extracted from "Speaker's Sourcebook II", Glen Van Ekeren, Prentice Hall, 1994

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Sometimes the remedy is worse than the disease - Spanish Proverb

Thoughts 24OCT2013

EXCELLENCE

Some people may have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly, by doing what comes naturally and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

John Gardner - Extracted from "Speaker's Sourcebook II", Glen Van Ekeren, Prentice Hall, 1994

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Half the truth is often a whole lie - Spanish Proverb

Thoughts 23OCT2013

THEN WHAT?

Henry Ford always bought flowers for his wife from a shop every Friday evening. Once, he asked the old florist, "Gentlemen, you have a good shop. Why not open a branch?" Florist, "Sir, then what?" Henry Ford, "You will then have several branches in Detroit". Florist, "Sir, then what?" Henry Ford, angrily, "Damn it, you will then be able to relax". Florist, "That is what I am doing even now". Ford walked away sheepishly.

Extracted from "Management Thoughts" by Promod Batra, Golden Book Centre Sdn Bhd, reprinted 1995.

To speak is to sow, to listen is to reap - Kurdish Proverb

Thoughts 22OCT2013

DON'T CRY OVER SPILT SOUP

An old Chinese farmer was walking along the road with a stick across his shoulder. Hanging from the stick was a pot filled with soy bean soup. He stumbled and the jar fell off and broke into pieces. The old farmer kept going, unperturbed. A man rushed up and said excitedly, "Don't you know that you jar broke?" "Yes", the old farmer answered. "I know, I heard it fall." "It's broken; the soup is gone - what can I do about it?" he asked.

extracted from "Management Thoughts" by Promod Batra, Golden Book Centre Sdn Bhd, reprinted 1995

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A thousand friends are too few; one enemy is one too many - Kurdish Proverb

Thoughts 21OCT2013

POINTS TO PONDER

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, that what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company or a home. The remarkable thing is, we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have and that is our attitude - Charles Swindoll (Strengthening Your Grip) - extracted from Reader's Digest, July 1995 - Points to Ponder

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Live life to the fullest and focus on the positive - Matt Cameron

Thoughts 18OCT2013

ON RELATIONSHIPS

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only what you are expecting to give - which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving. If you are very lucky, you may be loved back. That is delicious but it does not necessarily happen - Katherine Hepburn

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The love we give away is the only love we keep - Elbert Hubbard