If we develop and implement a strategic vision for our life which is reality based, and follow through with the daily actions required, we can and will achieve personal success. And we will achieve this success despite the government, not because of it.
–Mike Hazell
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Some generations have been notably humble due to what they had to endure; other generations have been notably arrogant for what they never had to endure. —Mike Hazell (Image Licensed by Penn...
All of our discontents about what we want appear to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. —Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe (Artist unknown; style of Sir Godfrey...
I am easily satisfied with the very best. —Winston Churchill (Image licensed by Penn Wealth Pub.)
A minute’s success pays the failure of years. —Robert Browning (1888, by Herbert Rose Barraud; Public Domain)
If only the fool would persist in his folly, he would surely become wise. —William Blake (1807, by Thomas Phillips; Public Domain)
There is a persistent overall tendency for equity to flow from the many to the few. In the long run, the majority loses. The implication for the trader is that to win you must act like the...
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. —Peter Drucker (by Jeff McNeill; Creative Commons) Many a productive day has been lost to useless work; to...
Faith is a passionate intuition. —William Wordsworth (1842, by Benjamin Haydon; Public Domain)
Beware the fury of a patient man. —John Dryden (by Sir Godfrey Kneller; Public Domain)
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! —Alexander Pope (1727, by Michael Dahl; Public Domain)
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. —Mark Twain (by A.F. Bradley; Public Domain)
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still? —J. Paul Getty (Image...
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. —Erasmus, Catholic priest and Dutch philosopher (1523,...
The higher one climbs, the longer their working day. There are no office hours for leaders. —Cardinal James Gibbons (Image in the Public Domain)
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking. —John Pierpont Morgan...
Personally, I am always ready to learn; though I do not always like being taught. —Winston Churchill, British PM (Image licensed by Penn Wealth Pub.)
Patience is a noble Virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its Reward. —General George Washington (Excerpt from 1783 letter to Reverend John Rodgers; Image licensed) Patience does...
It is a military maxim that ‘fortune may fail us, but a prudent conduct never will.’ At the same time, some of the most brilliant victories have been obtained by a daring stroke. —Maj Gen William...
Never seem wiser or more learned than the company you are with. Treat your knowledge like a watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked....
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. —C.S. Lewis (Image licensed by Penn Wealth Pub.)
