Inspirational Quote Post

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I personally read 3-5 quotes every 2 hours during the business day to remind myself to reach for greatness, and I look forward to turning this discussion into a section of the network that will inspire us all.

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
Dale Carnegie

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Permalink Reply by Marvin Krazy Crawford on October 31, 2008 at 9:52pm: Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Permalink Reply by Marvin Krazy Crawford on October 31, 2008 at 9:52pm: There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
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Permalink Reply by Marvin Krazy Crawford on October 31, 2008 at 9:54pm: "Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."
Henry Ford
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Permalink Reply by Marvin Krazy Crawford on October 31, 2008 at 9:55pm: "The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly."
Jim Rohn; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Marvin Krazy Crawford on October 31, 2008 at 9:56pm: Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.

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Permalink Reply by Marvin Krazy Crawford on October 31, 2008 at 9:57pm: Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, "Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?" And I said, "None." He then asked, "Who sold you on that plan?"

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Permalink Reply by Marvin Krazy Crawford on October 31, 2008 at 9:59pm: Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Marvin Krazy Crawford on October 31, 2008 at 10:03pm: One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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Permalink Reply by Marvin Krazy Crawford on October 31, 2008 at 10:04pm: One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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Permalink Reply by Marvin Krazy Crawford on October 31, 2008 at 10:04pm: The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.
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Permalink Reply by Nikki Viljoen on October 31, 2008 at 10:23pm: MOTIVATION – GOING THROUGH THE BARRIER’S

By Nikki Viljoen of Viljoen Consulting CC

Today’s quote comes from Vincent Van Gogh who says:

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

Now we all know that Vincent Van Gogh was slightly mad! Anyone who cuts their own ear off has got to have lost the plot at some point. That said look at the beauty of his paintings, so somewhere along the line he had to have gotten it right.

Pause for a moment and think about what his words mean. I know that people who play sport often ‘go through the pain’ and from what I understand it means that when whatever it is that you are doing is painful, you just keep on going and at some point it is no longer painful.

What makes business any different? Why do those particular words just have to pertain to someone’s talent, be that of the artistic kind or the sports kind? Surely that would also apply to ‘talent’ in the business sense of the word too?

There is not a single person who I know, who is in business today who has not at some point in time – just wanted to give up and throw the towel in. There is not a single person who I know, who is in business today who has not thought ‘why does it have to be so hard’?

Well the truth of the matter is that it does not have to be hard, it’s just that as mere humans we tend to loose our way and then we make decisions that have consequences and it’s living up to and with those consequences that is what is hard sometimes.

So the next time you hear the little voice inside of you, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it is time to book your spot in the nearest mental institution, it could just be your intuition giving you a nudge to make a decision.

What decision will you make?

Nikki is an Internal Auditor and Business Administration Specialist who can be contacted on 083 702 8849 or nikki@viljoenconsulting.co.za.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Therese on October 31, 2008 at 10:44pm: Success is not a destination, it's a journey.
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