“I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.”  Thomas Edison

“The greatest motivator is a sense of achievement. Whenever possible, tell an employee, ‘Here is your project. Go do it your way.’”  From Bits & Pieces

Here’s a question for you. Use it to get your creative juices flowing.

If you were a cookie, what kind would you be?

To the query: “What is a friend?” his reply was “A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”  –Aristotle

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

–John Quincy Adams

People only see what they are prepared to see.   –Ralph Waldo Emerson

It Couldn’t Be Done
By Edgar A. Guest

Somebody said that it couldn’t be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that;
At least no one ever has done it”;
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it.

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. –Stephen R. Covey

“Don’t play for safety. It’s the most dangerous thing in the world.”  Hugh Walpole

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” –Norman Vincent Peale