December 28th, 2007
Happy Year End! What is your favorite Quote?
If your fiscal year is the calendar year, Monday will be your last chance to bring in business for 2007. Wait it can’t be 08, what happened on Y2K? Didn’t we just party like it was 1999?
It is time to finalize your business plans for 08 to be great! I love motivational quotes, and have used them often in business. I use to leave quotes on my phone at work and my cell phone. Some people use to call just to hear my quote. Almost all have been borrowed but the point is to serve as a reminder of your mission.
In line with that I strongly suggest a theme for the year, or a nick name for your team to serve as a rallying cry. Understand the team dynamics, culture. Be careful of sports or military themes, for they may offend some. I remember walking into a party at a national sales meeting. The flag representing the confederacy was part of the theme. I complained to the big guys and the flag was removed. It was explained as an honest error, they claimed not to know the best known symbol of slavery would be offensive to blacks. And to some it wasn’t, they just wanted to fit in.
As a young boy I was made aware of a quote used by JFK. If you are old enough you will immediately recognize and appreciate this quote.
“Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country!”
Here is a quote from our current President. W
“We are going to smoke em out”
I heard one today from Kayne West, “It is much harder to quit than it is to not try.” Think about that one, profound!
Here are some of my favorite;
“Shoot for the moon and even if you miss you will be among the stars!”
“Try not, it is do or do not, there is no try!”
“Master your own destiny!”
“You are not judged by the times your fail but rater the times you succeed, and the amount of times you succeed is in direct proportion to the amount you can fail and keep trying!”
“Winning is not everything, it’s the only thing!”
One of my all time favorite was uttered by “The Great and incomparable,” Muhammad Ali to Joe Frazier, “ I will kick your white Christian ass!”
Help me out, let me hear some of your quotes or themes. Please give us some of your wisdom
December 28th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Happy new year to all you bloggers and hopefully this site is more successful in the coming years. I just thought i would add some of my favorite quotes too.
This first is from a movie called The wedding crashers: Play like a champion, no excuses.
And from American Gangster: Quiting while ahead is not the same as quiting.
And a common one from somewhere. Depending on your mood you can either use: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me/Ill hunt you down.
Another is: Taking second position only makes you the best looser.
December 28th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Happy new year to all you bloggers and hopefully this site is more successful in the coming years. I just thought i would add some of my favorite quotes too.
This first is from a movie called The wedding crashers: Play like a champion, no excuses.
And from American Gangster: Quiting while ahead is not the same as quiting.
And a common one from somewhere. Depending on your mood you can either use: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me/Ill hunt you down.
Another is: Taking second position only makes you the best looser.
Hopefully more wise/smart quotes are posted
December 28th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
“How you do anything is how you do everything.”
December 30th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
“ I will kick your white Christian ass!”
I know a lot of pompous types who deserve some real good ass kickin.
Here’s a quote from e.e. cummings,
“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
“One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.” - Johhn Stuart Mill
“Wanting to be someone you’re not is a waste of the person you are.” - Kurt Cobain
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” - Patrick Henry
December 31st, 2007 at 4:23 am
Hi JD! Happy New Year to you and your family.
Some of my favorites are:
“Nothing beats a failure but a try”
“A hard head makes a soft a***”
“A whistlin’ hen comes to no good end” (my father used to tell me and my sister that if we’d whistle, hilarious!)
“Feed your enemies with a long handled spoon.”
December 31st, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Ra, thanks for the good wishes and quotes, much happiness to you and your’s in 08, how about this one from Friday night lights,
attitude is a reflection of leadership
December 31st, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Claude, thanks for to reminder, simple but true,
if you fail to plan, you plan to fail
December 31st, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Jo, so deep and compelling, thanks for the message,
some dream of things that are and ask why, others dream of things that are not and ask why not
December 31st, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Shelia, I like them, it is about,
if you think you can or you think you cannot, either way you are right
January 1st, 2008 at 4:27 am
“Winning is not everything, it’s the only thing!”
i like that too
and Happy new year JD
January 1st, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Here’s another simple one:
“Thoughts are things.”
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Here are 2 of my favorites:
Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.
And the day came when the risk to remain in a tight bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. –Anais Nin
January 2nd, 2008 at 3:29 pm
awans, thanks for stopping by and having a comment
January 2nd, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Claude, you got me on that one, but if thoughts are things, things won’t help without action
January 2nd, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Ebony, great stuff, thanks!
January 4th, 2008 at 7:21 am
I belive in NEVER GIVE IN
January 4th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Shayari, true, true, thanks for the visit
January 9th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
“desire, ask, believe, receive”
“Two ears, one mouth, tells us we should do half the talking and twice the listening.”
January 10th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Stleosophy, A great quote, it is how many men end up married! You hit on a significant problem for many sales people, poor listening skills. Thanks for stopping.