“Efficiency is doing the job right. Effectiveness is doing the right job right.”
Patrick Morley, author
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The best way to knock a chip off someone’s shoulder is to give them a pat them on the back.
Be a good-finder not a fault-finder!
Sage advice to managers: “The optimum length of time for a holiday is just long enough to be missed but not quite long enough for others to discover how well they coped without you.” – Anon.
Mushroom Management: Keep people in the dark; cover them with manure; leave them to stew for a while and then can them!
One man described success in the workplace today as, ‘licking the boots of those above you while stepping on the fingers of those below you.’
When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove that you are smarter than they are.
You can teach a person knowledge and you can teach a person skills but you can’t teach natural talent. Look for natural talent.
“Surround yourself with people who are better than you are, or else you are as good as it gets!”
Rob Parsons, author and speaker
Asking for help is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of intelligence.
“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
Stephen Covey
“People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Winston Churchill said it first.”
Anon.
“It isn’t the people you fire who make your life miserable it’s the people you don’t fire.”
Harvey Mackay
People don’t change very much, so don’t waste too much time trying to put in what is not already there. Instead, concentrate of their strengths.
A sign seen outside a church: ‘Still under the same management after 2000 years!’
Behind every successful man there is always a good woman!
“Too many marriages start out in bliss and end up in blisters.” – Fred Smith
If you are too busy to spend time with your family, you’re too busy!
“The man who is always as busy as a bee should be very careful: Someday he might wake up to the fact that someone has swiped his honey.”
Anon
“Whether you married the right person or the wrong person is primarily up to YOU.”
Zig Ziglar
“An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it!”
attributed to O. A. Battista
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
James Joyce
“Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes is right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.”
General Peyton C. March
To err is human but to cock things up completely takes a computer!
Anon.
A man who never makes mistakes never makes anything!
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don’t respond with encores!
“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.”
Abraham Lincoln
A mistake is evidence that at least someone tried to do something!
“A successful career has been full of blunders.”
attributed to Charles Buxton
“A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful that a life spent doing nothing.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), dramatist and critic
He who is faultless is lifeless!
“The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one!”
Elbert Hubbard (writer)
“No man ever became great except through many and great mistakes.”
William Gladstone (1809-1898), four-times British prime minister
Net worth does not bring self-worth!
“Money is like an arm or a leg – use it or lose it!”
Henry Ford (1863-1947), founder of the Ford Motor Company
“Money is another pair of hands to heal, feed and bless the desperate families of the earth. In other words, money is my other self.”
Bruce Larsen
When someone says, ‘It’s not the money it’s the principle; it’s the money!
RT Kendall
“Nowadays people can be divided into three classes: the ‘Haves’, the ‘Have-Nots’, and the ‘Have-Not-Paid-For-What-They-Haves.”
Earl Wilson, US baseball star
“Don’t just make money, make an impact. Significance should be your goal, not survival.”
Bob Gass
Bob Gass, The UCB Word For Today, 17/7/2002
It’s relatively easy to make a living. It’s a lot harder to make a difference.
“If a person has earned money without helping people, his money will not buy him happiness.”
Tim LaHaye, author
“Money isn’t everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.”
Zig Ziglar
“Money is important, just as important as blood, but we make blood to live; we don’t live to make blood.” – Fred Smith, US businessman, speaker and author
Riches are found in contentment but contentment is not found in riches.
“A rich person is not the one who has the most but the one who needs the least.” – Anon.
“Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.”
Jim Rohn
If anyone promises you pie in the sky you can be sure they are after using your dough!
Motive is everything.
“If people lose motivation and purpose, they usually die fairly soon afterwards. If they don’t die on the outside they die on the inside.”
Van Crouch, author and speaker
You can’t motivate people who don’t want to be motivated because the door of motivation has to first be unlocked from the inside.
“Life is like a ten-speed bike: Most of us have gears we never use!”
Charles M. Schultz, cartoonist and author of ‘Peanuts’
When you meditate on your past accomplishments and remind yourself of what you have already achieved, you feed your spirit and motivate yourself to further success with a ‘Can Do’ attitude.
Just do it
Motivation is the ability to set people on fire but without making their blood boil.
People who are on fire spread ‘motivation’ like wildfire.
It takes more than motivation to create a winner; it also takes talent: If you motivate a foolish person you just end up with a motivated fool. It is only when you motivate a talented person that you end up with a success.
Even in the coldest flint there is fire… if you will work hard enough to find it.
“Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, you end up with a motivated idiot.”
Jim Rohn
To lift someone up you have to be on higher ground yourself.
“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one good reason why they can.”
Willis R. Whitney (1868-1958), late vice-president of General Electric
“You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless they are willing to climb a little.”
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), US steel manufacturer and philanthropist
“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”
Vince Lombardi
The key to motivation is to have a person do something because they want to do it, not because you want them to do it. As the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.
“Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, and I can single-handed move the world.”
Archimedes
To become is to overcome!
Calm seas do not make for skilful sailors.
Ancient proverb
Every road has its potholes.
“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible obstacles must first be overcome.”
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British lexicographer and writer
“Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.”
W. C. Fields (1880-1946), actor
When opportunity calls it’s always on a flying visit and never to take up residency. Move while the door of opportunity is open.
“Don’t wait around for opportunity to knock on your door because that only happens in fairy tales. Waiting around for the right opportunity to come knocking is like standing in the middle of a cricket field with your hands cupped together, waiting to catch the ball. It just doesn’t happen! Opportunity doesn’t knock on doors; it hides behind them. So push open a few doors and see what happens. You can always close them again if you don’t like what you find.”
R. Ian Seymour
R. Ian Seymour, excerpt adapted from Maximise Your Potential
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), dramatist and critic
Opportunity is not something that turns up but something that is turned up!
A great many people waste a great deal of time looking for a better job when often, the truth is, if they just did a better job they would have a better job.
Today is the tomorrow you eagerly anticipated yesterday.
“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or in the help of others, it is in yourself alone.”
Orison Swett Marden (1848-1924), author and magazine editor.
“Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you disengage the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarms, it’s too late!”
attributed to Rita Cooledge
The door of opportunity is always marked ‘PUSH’.
If there is no wind, row.
Ancient maritime proverb
There is so much confusion and debate in our society about religion. Hindus insist there are many different gods (Shiva, Vishnu, etc.), but the Jews demand there is only one. Buddhists say we are reincarnated after death, but Muslims say we are not. Who is right? Certainly not all of them…According to Islam, the God who demands our ‘submission’ (which is what the word ‘Islam’ means) is too powerful and awesome to live among us. But Jesus taught differently.
John Dickson
Source: John Dickson, A Sneaking Suspicion, p.75, 78
The Quaran says: “Allah forbid that He Himself should beget a son!” (Sura 19:35-36); “Say: ‘Praise be to Allah who has never begotten a son, who has no partner in His kingdom” (Sura 17:111). The Bible says, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
Source: The Uniqueness of our Faith by Selwyn Hughes, p.56
According to the US Centre for World Missions, the Christian church is growing at a rate three times faster than the world population.
Quoted by Nicky Gumbel in The Jesus Lifestyle, 2010, London: Alpha International, p.162
How many Christians are there in the world? According to Pew Research Centre there are 2.2billion Christians living on the planet, which represents 32% (about a third) of the world’s population.
www.pewresearch.org/daily-number/number-of-christians-rises-but-their-share-of-world-population-stays-stable
The difference between Buddhism and Christianity is like the difference between chalk and cheese. In comparison, the difference between Anglican, Baptist and Methodist is like that between Cheddar, Edam and Brie.
Source: Stephen Gaukroger, It Makes Sense, p.101 (adapted)
The man who started Buddhism (Siddhartha Gautama) was a wealthy and powerful prince; the man who started Islam (Mohammed) was renowned and fearsome warrior; but the man who started Christianity was born in a shed. He spent most of his life unknown, and ended up being executed as a criminal.
John Dickson
Source: John Dickson, A Sneaking Suspicion, p.26
Although the New Age movement has no world headquarters, no full-time missionaries on the field, and no coherent organisation, it is attracting disciples at a dizzying rate. Now we know the New Age philosophy is about as mindless and silly as any “ism” going. Pay a few hundred bucks and learn how to be your own God. So if it’s so mindless, why are millions of people flocking to New Age teaching? Who’s behind it? I’ll give you one guess. No human is smart enough to pull this off.
Tony Evans
Tony Evans, Time To Get Serious, 2007, Wheaton, Illinois, Crossway Books, p.275
“Delay is part of the multiplication process. It takes time to get everything lined up, but when that occurs, you had better watch out because things are about to erupt!”
Paul J. Meyer
Sometimes the best course of action is to let the world take a turn.
“Everything comes if a man will only wait.”
Tancred (? – 1112), Norman hero of the First Crusade, who captured Jerusalem in 1099
“Men are born to succeed, not to fail.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet, novelist and dramatist
“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to take up somebody.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), poet
Rome wasn’t built in a day.
(English translation of an ancient Latin proverb)
A talent judge at MGM in Hollywood once said of Fred Astaire, one of the greatest singers, dancers and actors of all time: “Can’t act. Can’t sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little!”
Source: Intercessory Prayer by Dutch Sheets p.18 also Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, p.74
Keep on Keeping on. Keep going until you’re gone!
You have to go through it to get through it and come out the other side. It’s the same for everyone.
Persistence is one thing, pig headed stubbornness is another. There’s no point in running if you’re running down the wrong road. Check the direction markers!
Victory is born out of struggle
“Why on earth, except to grow?”
Robert Browning (1812-1889), English poet
“You will be the same in 5 years’ time except for the people you meet and the books you read.”
Charlie Jones (writer and speaker)
Improve by just 0.3% a day and in a year’s time you will be over 100% better off.