“Chance favors the prepared mind.” -- Louis Pasteur A fairly large number of people that I have met and talked to seem to have this mindset that luck is what makes somebody successful. That no matter how much effort you put in, in the end, if you aren’t lucky, you…
“The minute you’re satisfied with where you are, you aren’t there anymore.” -- Tony Gwynn If you’re not familiar with Tony Gwynn, he is a baseball player who was inducted to the Hall of Fame in 2007, and although he is not a president or a business leader, he…
“Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.” -- Nolan Bushnell People often classify themselves as either a thinker or a doer, and think that both of these things…
“The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.” -- Criss Jami The feeling of success, of overcoming a great boundary, is one of the greatest in the world. It is what pushes men and women toward greatness and gives them the drive and willpower to push forward,…
“You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.” -- Stephen R. Covey Continuing on from the last post, I figured I would go into a little bit more detail on one of the most important aspects of…