Thursday, June 24, 2010

A Dozen Axioms to Ease the Daily Grind

The word axiom comes from a Greek word that encompasses the ideas of deeming worthy, being in balance, and having value. These may sound cliché, but why reinvent the wheel when they are tried and true?

1. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. – Colin Powell

2. Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

3. I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. – Frances Willard

4. The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. – Thomas Edison

5. The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist. – Harold Wilkins

6. Every business is built on friendship. – J. C. Penney

7. See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. – Pope John XXIII

8. Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert. – Robert Brault

9. Drive thy business or it will drive thee. – Benjamin Franklin

10. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. – Japanese proverb

11. Judge not according to appearances, but judge according to equity. – Jewish Proverb

12. When you own your own business, you only have to work half a day. You can do anything you want with the other twelve hours. – Anonymous

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