Sage Business Advice

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"Always do right.  This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain

Success!
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Those who have achieved success had the ABILITY to be successful."

"Selling is a SCIENCE, be a scientist."

"Don't work "smart", work hard. You become smart by working hard."

"RESPECT, HUMILITY...they are in short supply in today's world. Kind of like the two ears, one mouth thing, used in proportion, you will find yourself well served."

"If I don't see you in the future, I'll see you in the pasture."

"People that bring 'dirt', take 'dirt.' "

"Never get in a pissing contest with a skunk...there is only one winner."

"You can't quote silence."

"People's feelings are their own...you cannot argue with someone's feelings."

"Thank you....no really, thank you. How many times do people say, there you go or have a nice day when all you want is a thank you."

"Do it right the first time."

"The greatest revolution of my life is the discovery that individuals can change the outer aspects of their lives by changing the inner attitudes of their minds." - William James

"Certainly the more information we get, the higher the level of ignorance seems to be." Annonymous

"If you swing hard enough and often enough you must eventually hit a home run."

"Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them."

"Every great human achievement is preceded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort."

"We have a mental block inside us that stops us from earning more than we think we are worth. If we want to earn more in reality, we have to upgrade our self-concept."

"The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels of satisfaction."

"You can never earn in the outside world more than you earn in your own mind."

"The difference between the top performers and the average or mediocre performers is not a great, massive difference. It is just a tiny difference because the top performers do things just a tiny bit."

"When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited."

"The more you like yourself, the better you perform in everything that you do."

"With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about."

"The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past."

"Treat the people in your life as though they were the most important people in the world, because they are."

"If you were absolutely guaranteed of success in any one thing, what one goal would you set for yourself?"

"Never sell yourself short. Anything anyone else has done, you can probably do as well."

"The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves."

"Clear goals allow you to control the direction of change in your life."

"To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life."

"You cannot control what happens; you can only respond to what happens."

"Create your own poster, covered with pictures of things you want to acquire. All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures."

"The more positive you are when you think and work toward your goals, the faster you achieve them."

"You are always free to choose what you do with your life. To make changes in your future, make new choices today."

"If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now"

"Always work on the 20% of your activities that contribute 80% of your results. What are they?"

"You are positive, creative and happy to the degree to which you elimate negative emotions from your life."

"Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual."

"Make a commitment today to something bigger and more important than yourself."

"Eliminate worry by identifying the worst possible outcome of every situation."

"Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement."

"Start every morning by saying, I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today. Repeat it over and over. "

"Opportunities usually come dressed in work clothes."

"Within every setback or obstacle there is the seed of an equal or greater advantage or benefit. Find it."

"When your goals are clear, you will come up with exactly the right answer at exactly the right time."

"It is your attitude more than your aptitude that determines your altitude."

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." -Lou Holtz

"Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others - ever. Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others - always." -Dee Hock

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