To be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.
Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.
If you don't have time for the small things, you won't have time for the big things
You get the idea. Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once. There are no rules. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, and it's because you fall over that you learn to save yourself from falling over. It's the greatest thrill in the world and it runs away screaming at the first sight of bullet points.
If you look for the best in your employees, they'll flourish. If you criticize or look for the worst, they'll shrivel up. We all need lots of watering.
The way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers
Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.
Government aid programs have been endlessly expanded, and the government has sought to maximize the number of people willing to accept handouts. . . . . Roughly half of all Americans are dependent on the government, either for handouts, pensions, or paychecks.
Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.
The most common mistake you'll make is forgetting to keep your own scorecard. Very little at work reinforces your ability to do this, so you will have to be vigilant. When evaluators give you an assessment, they are just guessing at who you are; they certainly are not the ones who know your potential. They can rate you and influence you, but they don't get to define you. That's your most honorable assignment: to define, every day through the way you deliver your work, the scope and nature of your inherent abilities.
The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre, all is mist and error and confusion.