Power Thoughts

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
– Warren Buffett

“Small business people are people with goals and values that can’t be calculated on a profit and loss statement.”
-Linda McMahon, Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields,founder of Mrs. Fields Bakeries

“People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.”
– Harvey MacKay 

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing
-Mark Twain

“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
– Michael Jordan

“Small business isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for the brave, the patient and the persistent. It’s for the overcomer.”
– Unknown

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.”
– Sam Levinson

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
– Samuel Johnson

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“It doesn’t work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.”
-American Proverb

“Movement without Measurement is Merely Motion.”
-Anonymous

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.”
– Vernon Sanders Law

“Drive thy business or it will drive thee.”
-Benjamin Franklin

“Success is going from failure to failure with confidence.”
– Winston Churchill

“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”
-William James

“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
-Marilyn vos Savant

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo

“The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.”
– Robert Frost

“The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.”
-Casey Stengel