Ancient Chinese proverb "even the gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities".

"Your job is to anticipate... To give them what they want and/or what they need just before they have to "ask" for it--to be surprising yet self-evident at the same time. If you are too far behind, or too far ahead of them, you create problems, but if you are right with them, leading them ever so slightly, the flow of events feels natural and exciting at the same time." ~ a quote from Oscar-winning film editor Walter Murch

"One of the keys to mastery is surrounding yourself with those who ask more of you than you do." ~ Blair Singer

"True Communication is the response that you get!"- Blair Singer

“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning”

—Rick Cook

You can't do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.
-unknown

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. ~ Herbert Simon

"There lies within each person a huge reservoir of untapped potential for achievement, success, happiness, health and greater prosperity. It's like an ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channelled toward some great good." ~ Jim Rohn

The difference between real life and chess is that in real life the rules can [and do] change - Games Foxes Play - Planning for extraordinary times ~ Chantall Ilbury and Clem Sunter

"The only way to know how customers see your business is to look at it through their eyes." Daniel R. Scroggin

Mahatma Ghandi said: "YOU must be the change you want to see in the world."

"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."

~ Samuel Johnson

"Don't waste all your experience. Sometimes the best thing to do is to stop, take stock, and make some new plans. It's not the plan that is important. It's the planning."

~ Peter Carruthers

“The best way out is always through.”
- Robert Frost

Four things I'd been better without

Love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

~ DOROTHY PARKER

"Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money." ~Simone Weil

One secret of success is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

- George Burns

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

- Isaac Newton

I will persist until I succeed.

I was not delivered into this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

I will persist until I succeed.

---From an ancient scroll marked III - in The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

~ George Bernard Shaw

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

~ Winston Churchill