Want to take your presentation, your marketing or yourself to the next level? There is nothing wrong borrowing from the great thinkers and successful of the past or present. If one of these thoughts impresses you, chances are it may resonate with your audience as well. Here are a few useful quotations for building your business, your team or yourself… (But don’t just read them—attempt to work them into the fabric of your thinking and great change will take place!) "I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart." e e cummings "Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions." Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." J. Paul Getty (1892-1976) "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." H. G. Wells (1866-1946) "There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life." Frank Zappa "Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." George Eliot (1819-1880) "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) "I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it" - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." Henry Ford (1863-1947) "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." Richard Bach "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." -Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back') "Never mistake motion for action." Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." Mark Twain (1835-1910) "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) "A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960) "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'." Unknown "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953 “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) "But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near." - Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) Can’t find something appropriate here? Find a life quote to motivate your life’s vision into your reality and replay it daily. Use a great book, the internet, the Bible, business periodical, etc. Real change takes place through daily repetition. Begin Today. “Yesterday is History and tomorrow is unknown—today is the GIFT we give to ourselves and one another. That is why we refer to it as the PRESENT” --unknown With great risk there comes great reward--go for it.

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