Mind & Freedom
Napoleon Hill
Choices
“How would your perspective change if you knew for fact you’d picked your life?”
-Unknown Shaman
Stillness
Progress is not made by contented people.
- Frank Tyger
Hesitation
“Today it’s not too late… but one day it will be.”
-Anonymous
Change
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
- George Elliot
Sloth
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
- Dale Carnegie
Perspective
A man on one side of a river shouts to a man standing on the other side, “Hey, how do I get to the other side of the river?” The other man responds, “You are on the other side of the river.”
Careers
“People who are already successful became so precisely because they were unwilling to tolerate certain aspects of their job they didn’t like. Their intolerance caused their success…
The point here is simply that you will contribute the most, as either an individual performer or a team member, when your role closely matches your strengths, and that it’s your responsibility to try to arrange your world so that it does…
…the moment you are spending less than 70% of your time on the things you love to do, identify the activities getting in the way and take action to remove them.”
-Marcus Buckingham, The One Thing You Need to Know
Choices
You are only destined to become one person --- the person you decide to be.
At The Top
The man at the top of the mountain didn't just fall there.
Sales
Matsushita learned a very important lesson in terms of growing a company while he was trying to introduce his bicycle lamp to wholesalers. He realized that even if he had a product that was superior to anything out in the market it would not matter if he could not sell the product.
As a result, Matsushita began devising ways to create sales channels for his products by concentrating less on manufacturing and more on building a sales force, which led to a retail store network and finally placed Matsushita's company on the map in Japan's electrical manufacturing and retail industry.
- Founder of Panasonic, Konosuke Matsushita
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