Know your own mind, and you will be as wise as the sages. When you take charge of your mind, you take charge of your life. When you understand your thoughts, feelings, emotions, and desires, you can direct them to any end you choose. Wisdom comes from taking the time to study yourself, to know …
Month: December 2020
If you are a shepherd, be the best and you may live to own the flock. One of the most wonderful things about life is that we are all unique with different levels of intelligence, interests, aptitudes, and desires. How dreadfully dull it would be if we all wanted to be nuclear physicists — or …
If it isn’t your job to do it, perhaps it is your opportunity. Someone once observed that the reason we often fail to recognize opportunities is because they come disguised as problems. When a customer, a colleague, or your boss has a problem, it may create a valuable opportunity for you. It isn’t important to …
If you have more enemies than friends, the odds are a thousand to one you have earned them. Abraham Lincoln once observed, “You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time.” Regardless …
Those who do more than they are paid for will sooner or later be willingly paid for more than they do. If you consistently do more than you are paid to do — whether you are a professional, an executive, an hourly worker, or an entrepreneur — you will eventually be compensated for far more …
Some individuals appear to be “allergic” to honest work, but opportunity is equally allergic to them. In any business, profession, or occupation, there comes a time when you have to deliver. You may fake it for a time, pretending that you’re giving an honest effort, but eventually you will be measured by your deeds, not …
You cannot make all people like you, but you can rob them of a sound reason for disliking you. Even the most popular people have their detractors. Because we are all different, with differing interests and personalities, it is simply impossible for anyone to be beloved by every individual who knows him or her. If …
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The man who does his job precisely as he would do it if he owned the business may see the day when he will own that business or a better one. The best-managed companies are those in which management creates opportunities for employees to own a piece of the business through various types of stock-ownership …
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When the going is hardest, just keep on keeping on, and you’ll get there sooner than someone who finds the going easy. If you think achieving great heights of success will be easy, you either don’t understand at all how the process works or you have your sights set too low. Reaching the top of …
Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of harmonious attraction. In physics, positives attract negatives and vice versa, but in human relationships the opposite is true. Negative people attract only other negative people, while positive thinkers attract like-minded individuals. You will find that when you begin to achieve success more successes …