04/01

A sale is not something you pursue; it’s what happens to you while you are immersed in serving your customer.
– Unknown

Everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.
– Andy Rooney

The statement “It goes without saying” usually indicates something NEEDS to be said.
and
The problem with common sense is it’s not very common.

The reason grandchildren & grandparents get on so well?
They’ve got a common enemy.

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
(Thanks to Naomi Rosenthal from Tudor Investassure Pty Ltd www.tudorinvest.com.au for sending this in)

Pessimism is a communicable disease.
– Jack Fraenkel

Flying Solo had a very interesting discussion on this topic with research indicating it operates to 3 degrees of separation. Click here to read the post & comments.

If you do everything, what’s left for anyone else to do?

What other people think of me is none of my business.
– Barry Eaton (Radio Out There www.radiooutthere.com) adapted from a friend who wishes to remain anonymous

The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work.
– Robert Kiyosaki
(Thanks to Jane Thorpe from Paradigm Print www.paradigmprint.com.au for this)

Fact of Life:
After Monday and Tuesday…
even the calendar says “W T F”

Don’t sweat the petty things & don’t pet the sweaty things.

You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your father was.
– Irish proverb

If ever there is a lack of any kind, whether it is need for employment, or for money, or for guidance, or even for healing, something is blocking the flow. And the most effective remedy? Give!
– Eric Butterworth (Spiritual Economics: The Prosperity Process)

Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
– Saint Francis of Assisi

ASSUME = Makes an ASS of U & ME

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.
He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all.

The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.” 
– Thanks to Candy Shinaar for sending this in

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
– Jimi Hendrix
(Thanks to John O’Neill www.oneillconstruction.com.au for sending this in)

Without passion, you don’t have energy;
without energy, you have nothing.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
– Donald Trump
(Thanks to Marek Kazmierczak www.3colours.com.au for sending this in.)

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap. Rather by the seeds you sow.
– Robert Louis Stevenson

Birthdays are good for your health – the more you have, the longer you live.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, working together is SUCCESS!
– Henry Ford

If someone is going in the wrong direction, they don’t need motivation to speed up.
They need education to turn around!
– Karl Bryan

What is the secret of success?
Right decisions
How do you make right decisions?
Experience
How do you get experience?
Wrong decisions
(Thank you to Robyn Lindsay for sending this is in.)

If you’re going through hell, keep going.
(Thank you to John Eustace – Bells and Whistles Marketing – for sending this in)
(News flash – while commonly attributed to Winston Churchill there’s no evidence he ever used or made this statement. See Quote Investigator for details.)

It is never as difficult to do something as it is to think about it.
– Luis Cordoba

There are two great days in a person`s life ……………
the day we are born….
and the day we discover why. 
– William Barclay

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did.
– Mark Twain

(Thanks to Victoria Kasunic www.victoriakasunic.com.au for sending this in)

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
– Robert Bresson, French Film Director

(Thanks to Yiying Lu www.yiyinglu.com for sending this in)

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
– W W Ziege

We need 4 hugs a day for survival.
We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance.
We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
– Virginia Satir

Listening is wanting to hear, not waiting to speak.

Half your marketing spend is a waste of money.
The problem is – you don’t know which half.

Every gun that is made, every battleship that is built, every missile that is launched is a direct theft from the people who are hungry and starving in this world. 
– Eisenhower

Chase business, not money.
– Ray Williams

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
– Leo Aikman
(Thank you to Robyn Lindsay for sending this is in.)

Blessed is He who says and does;
blessed is He who decrees and fulfills;
blessed is He who creates the universe;
blessed is He who has compassion on the creatures
– Hebrew morning prayers

Words have power. Be careful what you say.

There’s a divine purpose behind everything and a divine presence in everything.
(Thanks to Lorna Patten www.openup.com.au for this)

Judgement has no place in the creative process.
– Suzi Jacobs (www.theathenanetwork.com.au)

A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.
– John D. Rockefeller

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life 
– Wayne Dyer

Your results are a direct consequence of the quality of your communication.

Don’t worry that someone will steal your original idea –
if it’s truly original you’ll have to ram it down their throat. 
– Lisa Gansky – author of “The Mesh”

Why do some cultures have elders while others have the elderly?
– Andrew Andreous

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
– Albert Einstein

Why not go out on a limb?
Isn’t that where the fruit is?.
– Frank Scully
(Thanks to Naomi Rosenthal from Tudor Investassure Pty Ltd www.tudorinvest.com.au for sending this in)

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
– Suze Orman

You say you have trouble living within your income, consider living without your income
– Bill Nixon
(Thanks to Robyn Lindsay for sending this in)

School holidays are a time when parents realise that teachers are grossly underpaid.

Income seldom exceeds personal development.
– Jim Rohn

To empower another, is to empower yourself.
To celebrate another, is to celebrate yourself.
And to free another, is to free yourself.
I say empower, celebrate, and free them all.
– Notes from the Universe
(Thanks to Emma McDermott mypersonalstylist.com.au for sending this in)

Whatever you can do, or dream you can,
BEGIN IT!
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
– Goethe