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“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.” Martin Luther King, Jr. The hardest thing to do in business (and personally) is to

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The Trap of Defeat

“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” — Denis Waitley   A couple posts ago, I talked about the Trap of Prosperity. Essentially, it is a period of stagnancy that sometimes comes along with

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The Customer

“There is only one boss: the customer.” — Sam Walton   A successful business should be honest to its customers, good to its employees, and well-organized in its management. And when I say this, I mean that a successful business has to be all three of these things. I have

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Integrity, or Oneness

“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” — Oprah Winfrey   Oprah really hit the nail on the head with this one. It is easy to do what you’re supposed to when you’re at work or out and

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Lady Luck

“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

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The Trap of Prosperity

“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

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If a Job is Once Begun…

“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

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Succeed Through Humility

“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,

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Loyalty — The Ultimate Form of Respect

“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

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Stay Connected

“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.” Martin Luther King, Jr. The hardest thing to do in business (and personally) is to

Continue Reading »

The Trap of Defeat

“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” — Denis Waitley   A couple posts ago, I talked about the Trap of Prosperity. Essentially, it is a period of stagnancy that sometimes comes along with

Continue Reading »

The Customer

“There is only one boss: the customer.” — Sam Walton   A successful business should be honest to its customers, good to its employees, and well-organized in its management. And when I say this, I mean that a successful business has to be all three of these things. I have

Continue Reading »

Integrity, or Oneness

“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” — Oprah Winfrey   Oprah really hit the nail on the head with this one. It is easy to do what you’re supposed to when you’re at work or out and

Continue Reading »

Lady Luck

“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

Continue Reading »

The Trap of Prosperity

“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

Continue Reading »

If a Job is Once Begun…

“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

Continue Reading »

Succeed Through Humility

“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,

Continue Reading »

Loyalty — The Ultimate Form of Respect

“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

Continue Reading »