Meriwether Lewis

“This day I completed my thirty first year… I reflected that I had yet done but little, very little indeed, to further the happiness of the human race, or to advance the information of the succeeding generation.

I viewed with regret the many hours I have spent in indolence, and now sorely feel the want of that information which those hours would have given me had they been judiciously expended.”

He resolved: ”In future, to live for mankind, as I have heretofore lived for myself.”

We Hold the Key

“Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, ‘This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.’”

Louis L'Amour

Natural Laws

There are two things which nature discourages and severely penalizes:
(a) a vacuum (emptiness) and (b) idleness (lack of action).
-N. Hill

Seeds

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
- N. Hill
 

Travel

Spending a few weeks overseas with someone will help you determine who they really are. 

People are Important.

Every business, every organization, every 'thing' that's been created...

All involved people. 

Notes

Actively taking notes in the margins of any book is just as important as reading it in the first place.

Stories

"There is a story behind every person. There is a reason why they are as they are. Think about that and respect them for who they are."

Staying Humble

Volunteer. Especially with men who have spent 40 years behind bars.

Marc's Words

"Opportunities that present themselves to you are the consequence -- at least partially -- of being in the right place at the right time. They tend to present themselves when you're not expecting it -- and often when you are engaged in other activities that would seem to preclude you from pursuing them. And they come and go quickly -- if you don't jump all over an opportunity, someone else generally will and it will vanish."

- http://pmarchive.com/guide_to_career_planning_part1.html

The Most Critical Trait of a Great Hire

Hunger.

The Greatest Corporate Slogan

Just do it.

 

Teddy Was Right

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."