he iconic Virgin Group founder seems to have done it all. Now he
explains to Inc. how to start a company from pennies, when to "snoop
around," and his trouble saying "no."
Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group--an empire of more
than 400 companies that includes an airline, a mobile phone company, and
a credit card company--sat down Wednesday with Inc. editor-in-chief
Eric Schurenberg. Their exclusive interview kicked off Inc.'s GrowCo
conference in New Orleans.
Branson spoke about the power of delegating, the importance of
branding, how to assess risk, and why he wants to change the entire
concept of space travel--soon.
Here are some of the interview's most poignant take-aways.
1. "A business can be started with very little money."
When Branson was 15 years old, he decided he wanted to start a
magazine to give young people a way to speak out against the Vietnam
War. He didn't have any money--not even enough change to make a phone
call. But when his mom found a necklace and turned it over to the
police, nobody claimed it. So she sold the necklace, and gave Branson a
couple hundred dollars. That money enabled him to bring on advertisers,
which led him to start printing his publication.
2. "Consider getting smaller in order to get bigger."
Rather than grow his original record business exponentially larger,
Branson instead set up 30 different record companies. Rather than have a
few top managers overseeing layers upon layers of people below them,
some lower-level employees became managers of those smaller entities. A
hearty spirit of competition developed. Branson attributes this
strategy's success to the fact each company knew directly and
immediately when it had succeeded, and when it had stumbled. Virgin
today is a huge entity with more than $20 billion in revenue--but
Branson's original strategy has been retained in that it also is a
series of smaller companies.
3. "You can be a David vs. a Goliath, if you get it right."
When Branson launched Virgin Atlantic, it had tough competitors such
as TWA, Pan Am, and Air Florida. "I mention these names," said Branson,
"because none of them exist anymore." Why'd the others fail? The others
didn't focus on the customer, Branson said.
4. "A business is simply an idea to make other people's lives better."
Branson explained this is what drives him as an entrepreneur: "If you
can make peoples lives a lot better, you've got a really good
business."
5. "Unless you dream, you're not going to achieve anything."
Branson is funding Virgin Galactic to make space travel more
accessible to average people--even if it would still cost an individual a
couple hundred thousand dollars. Because governments have traditionally
overseen space travel, only a select and elite (and very small) group
of people have been into space in the last six decades. Branson is
trying to change that. "People in this room under the age of 50,"
Branson said, "if they want to go to space will be able to go to space
in their lifetime."
6. "You can get too close with a doctor, or banker, and not realize you should actually snoop around."
When he launched Virgin Atlantic, Branson found a manager at his bank
on his doorstep one Friday evening in a complete panic, questioning how
someone in the record business could launch an airline. The banker said
he would foreclose on the whole Virgin Group that Monday. "I just
pushed the bank manager out of my house and told him he wasn't welcome,"
Branson said. He then explained that, in a state of "half-anger,
half-fear," he spent the weekend asking people he knew to chip in to
help him gather the money he needed upfront. And the next week he
changed banks--something he should have done much earlier (he even got a
better package from the new bank).
7. "Detail is very important."
Richard Branson carries a notebook at all times, so he can write down
conversations. He doesn't want to forget on, say, a Virgin Atlantic
flight, what his customers or staff tell him. He brings the notebook
along when he visits out-of-town teams and goes out with them. "When I
get drunk with staff, I won't remember, so I'll definitely write it
down," he laughed.
8. "You can create a business, choose a name, but unless people know about it you're not going to sell any products."
When Virgin Atlantic was getting started, it was so much smaller
than its competitors that Branson went to extraordinary lengths to put
the brand on the map, including stunts like attempting to get a boat
across the Atlantic in the shortest period of time. "Luckily when it
sank, the Virgin brand was sticking out of the water," he joked.
Likewise, when Branson tried to be the first to cross the Atlantic in a
hot air balloon, it was rescued by helicopters--but Virgin was all over
the newspapers.
9. "Find somebody else to run your business on a day-to-day basis."
Branson recommends you should be brave enough to find somebody else
to run all the day-to-day, and nitty-gritty details of your company, and
then step aside and work from home for a while, so you can start to
think about bigger picture--or your next business.
10. "Protect against the worst eventualities. Make sure you know what they are."
Ask yourself when you embark on a new venture if you can afford the
absolute worst-case scenario, and then just go on and do it. "You may
say, 'OK, I feel so sure about it I will mortgage the house.' I have
done that against my wife's wishes on two or three occasions," he said.
"Sometimes you'll fall flat on your face, sometimes you won't," he added.
11. "I think because I have great difficulty saying the word, 'no,' almost every day's a different adventure."
Branson's not one for taking it slow. Or turning down
opportunities--even if they mean jetting around the world and back. Inc.
caught up with Branson in New Orleans between a trip to New York--where
he announced the Virgin Atlantic service from two New York City-area
airports to Los Angeles and San Francisco--and his next stop: Peru.
http://www.inc.com/allison-fass/richard-branson-virgin-inspiration-leadership.html
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10/28/11
Steve Jobs Quotes
Steve Jobs funniest joke was said at the D5 conference.
'Apple is like a ship with a hole in the bottom, leaking water and my job is to get the ship pointed in the right direction' Steve Jobs
You need a lot of passion for what you're doing because its so hard. Without passion, any rational person would give up.
So if you're not having fun doing it, if you don't absolutely love it, you're going to give up.
And that's what happens to most people, actually.
If you look at the ones that ended up being successful in the eyes of society, often times its the ones who love what they do, so they could persevere when it got really tough.
And the ones that didn't love it, quit. Because they're sane, right?
Who would put up with this stuff if you don't love it?
So its a lot of hard work and its a lot of worrying constantly.
If you don't love it, you're going to fail.
'Apple is like a ship with a hole in the bottom, leaking water and my job is to get the ship pointed in the right direction' Steve Jobs
You need a lot of passion for what you're doing because its so hard. Without passion, any rational person would give up.
So if you're not having fun doing it, if you don't absolutely love it, you're going to give up.
And that's what happens to most people, actually.
If you look at the ones that ended up being successful in the eyes of society, often times its the ones who love what they do, so they could persevere when it got really tough.
And the ones that didn't love it, quit. Because they're sane, right?
Who would put up with this stuff if you don't love it?
So its a lot of hard work and its a lot of worrying constantly.
If you don't love it, you're going to fail.
10/24/11
Quotes
Quotes
-Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. (Bariness Amandine Lucile Dupin or George Sand)
-One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things that are not worthy of being known. (Crates)
-You can not legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating wealth away from the wealthy. You can not multiply wealth by dividing it. (Adrian Rogers 1931)
-Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible (Unknown)
-If you don't seize the moment, the moment passes and someone else seizes it.
-Energy and persistence conquer all things. Benjamin Franklin
-The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. Robert Cushing
-If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. Lord Chesterfield
-He that will not reflect is a ruined man. Asian Proverb
-Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. Chinese Proverb
-Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. Albert Einstein
-Every artist was first an amateur. Ralph Waldo Emerson
-The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. Horace Bushnell
-Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. Vince Lombardi
-Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality.
Practical dreamers do not quit. Napoleon Hill
-Those who believe they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. Aldous Huxley
-Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. Joseph Joubert
-Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. Napoleon Hill
-People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work. Alexander Hamilton
-In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. John Churton Collins
-A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. Chinese Proverb
-What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better. Proverb
-The middle course is the best. Cleobulus
-By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself. Menander
-The more a man knows, the more he forgives. Catherine the Great
-If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. Zen Proverb
-When I want to read a novel, I write one. Benjamin Disraeli
-You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life Winston Churchill
-Never say more than is necessary. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
-You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Ghandi
-That which does not kill you makes you stronger. Neitzsche
-I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen
-Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. Leo Tolstoy
-The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. Richard Cech
-We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. Gerald J. Simmons
-Everybody dies, but not everyone lives.
-Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles. Ayrton Senna
-I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence. Ayrton Senna
-On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit.' As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high. Ayrton Senna
-And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension. Ayrton Senna
-Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance. Ayrton Senna
-I believe in the ability of focusing strongly in something, then you are able to extract even more out of it. It's been like this all my life, and it's been only a question of improving it, and learning more and more and there is almost no end. As you go through you just keep finding more and more. It's very interesting, it's fascinating. Ayrton Senna
-We are made of emotions. We are all looking for emotions, basically. It's only a question of finding the way to experience them. Ayrton Senna
-It's important that the drivers stay together, because in difficult moments we have each other. If we are not together the financial and political interests of the organisers and constructors come to the fore. Ayrton Senna
-If something is hard, it will take two days. If its impossible, it will take another day. Jim Justice (The Justice Group)
-If you can't get it done in 24 hours, you're going to have to work nights. Jim Justice (The Justice Group)
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. (Henry Ford)
He who has the gold makes the rules (The Golden Rule)
We have no government armed in power capable of contending with human
passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made
only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the
government of any other. (John Adams)
Please feel free to critize the quality of my work but do not dare doubt my honesty and integrity. That are and have have been more important to me than winning races. Whan I put on the fia shirt and sit in the stewarts room I feel such a responsibility that I woulnt be biased even if my son would be racing. Enjoy the race. This is a wonderful sport. (Emanual superio)
I’ve learned that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.
I’ve learned that you cannot make someone love you, all you can do is be someone who can be loved. (Anon)
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." (Dom Helder Camara)
"Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching." (Satchel Paige)
"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." (Chinese Proverb)
"To Speak or NOT to Speak
If it is not truthful and not helpful don't say it
If it is Truthful and not helpful don't say it.
If it is Not truthful and helpful don't say it
If it is both Truthful and Helpful ...Wait for the right time" (Buddhist Quote)
"If you’re going through hell, keep going!" (Winston Churchill)
"The greatest freedom of all - is not having the fear of losing" (Unknown)
"Failure is not in falling down, it's in not getting up again" (Unknown)
"You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him learn it within himself." (Galileo )
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph.....is for good men to do nothing." (Winston Churchill)
The Paradoxical Commandments!
People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered. Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest persons with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest persons with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
People really need help, but may attack you if you do help them. Help them anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death." (Harold Wilson)
"Press On!
Nothing can take the place of perseverance.
Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistance and determination alone are omnipotent.
This slogan "Press On" has solved, always will solve, the problems of the human race." (Calvin Coolidge, 30th U.S. President)
"May you live a thousand years, and I a thousand less one day, that I might never know the world without you." (Hungarian Proverb)
"Character is doing the right thing when nobody is looking." (J. C. Watts)
"The only thing I know, is that I know nothing." (Socrates)
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." (The Dalai Lama)
"Life is like a finger, pointing to the Moon. If you look at the finger... you will miss all the heavenly glory." (Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee tells his pupil)
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS." (Mahatma Gandhi)
"The man who moved a mountain is the one who started taking away the small stones." (Old Chinese Proverb)
"I am still learning." (Michelangelo)
"You can tell a great deal about a society by the way they treat their elderly, their prisoners and their pets." (Unknown)
"To life's simple pleasures, and its finer things: may we always have the wisdom to appreciate all of the former, and the means to afford a few of the latter." (Laura L. Hirschfeld)
Only those who risk going too far can possibly know how far they can really go." (T.S. Eliot)
"An extraordinary person is just an ordinary person doing the right thing." (Unknown)
"The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away." (Joy J. Golliver)
Ask yourself always: how can this be done better? (GC Lichtenberg)
One of the most important things in families, both for children and spouses, is never to close off possibilities. (Hazel Hawke)
"If you love something... set it free.
If it returns... you never lost it.
If it disappears and never comes back.
It was never yours to begin with." (Anon)
"When prosperity comes, do not use all of it." (Confucius (551-479 BC))
"Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." (Epicurus (341-270 BC))
"If we lose kindness and affection from our life, we have lost all that gives it charm." (Marcus Tulius Cicero (106-53 BC))
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." (George Washington)
"See everything. Overlook a great deal. Improve a little." (Pope John XXIII)
"If you weep because the sun has set, your own tears will never let you see the stars." (Hindu Proverb)
"However true love is, true friendship is rarer." (Unknown)
"The one thing we can give and still keep is our word." (Unknown)
".....Don't try to keep up with the Joneses, bring them down to your level - it's much cheaper ..." (Quentin Crisp)
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." (Eleanor Roosevelt)
"There are two things to aim at in life: First, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second." (Logan Pearsall Smith)
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." (Buddha)
"Live with great expectations and great things will happen." (Art Fettig)
"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." (Goethe)
"When you run out of red, use blue!" (Pablo Picasso on flexibility and imagination)
"All children behave as well as they are treated." (Jan Hunt)
Thats what life is, a bunch of dreams, and you do what you can to try to make them happen. (Jeb Corliss - Professional Base Jumper - Squirell suit guy)
There are no limits, only the one you place on yourself. (Jeb Corliss - Professional Base Jumper - Squirell suit guy)
Your life is the way it is today because of you own actions and the decisions you have made.
Money does not change a person. It reveals who they really are.
"Take a lesson from the music industry and don't spend all your time suing people for misusing what you believe is your content — think instead about why they are doing this, and what it says about how your business is changing, and then try to adapt to that."
"He dropped me off, and he was like, 'Go! Live your life. I'm very proud of you.' And, 'Have a great time!'" she revealed. (Jack Nicholoson said to Lorraine Nicholson, Daughter)
"Well, he always tells me to look people in the eye and tell the truth and that's what I sort of tried to bring to this role," she said. (Jack Nicholoson said to Lorraine Nicholson, Daughter)
Children don't always listen, but they always watch.
-Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. (Bariness Amandine Lucile Dupin or George Sand)
-One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things that are not worthy of being known. (Crates)
-You can not legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating wealth away from the wealthy. You can not multiply wealth by dividing it. (Adrian Rogers 1931)
-Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible (Unknown)
-If you don't seize the moment, the moment passes and someone else seizes it.
-Energy and persistence conquer all things. Benjamin Franklin
-The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. Robert Cushing
-If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. Lord Chesterfield
-He that will not reflect is a ruined man. Asian Proverb
-Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. Chinese Proverb
-Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. Albert Einstein
-Every artist was first an amateur. Ralph Waldo Emerson
-The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. Horace Bushnell
-Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. Vince Lombardi
-Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality.
Practical dreamers do not quit. Napoleon Hill
-Those who believe they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. Aldous Huxley
-Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. Joseph Joubert
-Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. Napoleon Hill
-People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work. Alexander Hamilton
-In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. John Churton Collins
-A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. Chinese Proverb
-What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better. Proverb
-The middle course is the best. Cleobulus
-By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself. Menander
-The more a man knows, the more he forgives. Catherine the Great
-If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. Zen Proverb
-When I want to read a novel, I write one. Benjamin Disraeli
-You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life Winston Churchill
-Never say more than is necessary. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
-You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Ghandi
-That which does not kill you makes you stronger. Neitzsche
-I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen
-Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. Leo Tolstoy
-The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. Richard Cech
-We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. Gerald J. Simmons
-Everybody dies, but not everyone lives.
-Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles. Ayrton Senna
-I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence. Ayrton Senna
-On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit.' As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high. Ayrton Senna
-And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension. Ayrton Senna
-Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance. Ayrton Senna
-I believe in the ability of focusing strongly in something, then you are able to extract even more out of it. It's been like this all my life, and it's been only a question of improving it, and learning more and more and there is almost no end. As you go through you just keep finding more and more. It's very interesting, it's fascinating. Ayrton Senna
-We are made of emotions. We are all looking for emotions, basically. It's only a question of finding the way to experience them. Ayrton Senna
-It's important that the drivers stay together, because in difficult moments we have each other. If we are not together the financial and political interests of the organisers and constructors come to the fore. Ayrton Senna
-If something is hard, it will take two days. If its impossible, it will take another day. Jim Justice (The Justice Group)
-If you can't get it done in 24 hours, you're going to have to work nights. Jim Justice (The Justice Group)
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. (Henry Ford)
He who has the gold makes the rules (The Golden Rule)
We have no government armed in power capable of contending with human
passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made
only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the
government of any other. (John Adams)
Please feel free to critize the quality of my work but do not dare doubt my honesty and integrity. That are and have have been more important to me than winning races. Whan I put on the fia shirt and sit in the stewarts room I feel such a responsibility that I woulnt be biased even if my son would be racing. Enjoy the race. This is a wonderful sport. (Emanual superio)
I’ve learned that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.
I’ve learned that you cannot make someone love you, all you can do is be someone who can be loved. (Anon)
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." (Dom Helder Camara)
"Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching." (Satchel Paige)
"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." (Chinese Proverb)
"To Speak or NOT to Speak
If it is not truthful and not helpful don't say it
If it is Truthful and not helpful don't say it.
If it is Not truthful and helpful don't say it
If it is both Truthful and Helpful ...Wait for the right time" (Buddhist Quote)
"If you’re going through hell, keep going!" (Winston Churchill)
"The greatest freedom of all - is not having the fear of losing" (Unknown)
"Failure is not in falling down, it's in not getting up again" (Unknown)
"You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him learn it within himself." (Galileo )
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph.....is for good men to do nothing." (Winston Churchill)
The Paradoxical Commandments!
People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered. Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest persons with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest persons with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
People really need help, but may attack you if you do help them. Help them anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death." (Harold Wilson)
"Press On!
Nothing can take the place of perseverance.
Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistance and determination alone are omnipotent.
This slogan "Press On" has solved, always will solve, the problems of the human race." (Calvin Coolidge, 30th U.S. President)
"May you live a thousand years, and I a thousand less one day, that I might never know the world without you." (Hungarian Proverb)
"Character is doing the right thing when nobody is looking." (J. C. Watts)
"The only thing I know, is that I know nothing." (Socrates)
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." (The Dalai Lama)
"Life is like a finger, pointing to the Moon. If you look at the finger... you will miss all the heavenly glory." (Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee tells his pupil)
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS." (Mahatma Gandhi)
"The man who moved a mountain is the one who started taking away the small stones." (Old Chinese Proverb)
"I am still learning." (Michelangelo)
"You can tell a great deal about a society by the way they treat their elderly, their prisoners and their pets." (Unknown)
"To life's simple pleasures, and its finer things: may we always have the wisdom to appreciate all of the former, and the means to afford a few of the latter." (Laura L. Hirschfeld)
Only those who risk going too far can possibly know how far they can really go." (T.S. Eliot)
"An extraordinary person is just an ordinary person doing the right thing." (Unknown)
"The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away." (Joy J. Golliver)
Ask yourself always: how can this be done better? (GC Lichtenberg)
One of the most important things in families, both for children and spouses, is never to close off possibilities. (Hazel Hawke)
"If you love something... set it free.
If it returns... you never lost it.
If it disappears and never comes back.
It was never yours to begin with." (Anon)
"When prosperity comes, do not use all of it." (Confucius (551-479 BC))
"Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." (Epicurus (341-270 BC))
"If we lose kindness and affection from our life, we have lost all that gives it charm." (Marcus Tulius Cicero (106-53 BC))
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." (George Washington)
"See everything. Overlook a great deal. Improve a little." (Pope John XXIII)
"If you weep because the sun has set, your own tears will never let you see the stars." (Hindu Proverb)
"However true love is, true friendship is rarer." (Unknown)
"The one thing we can give and still keep is our word." (Unknown)
".....Don't try to keep up with the Joneses, bring them down to your level - it's much cheaper ..." (Quentin Crisp)
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." (Eleanor Roosevelt)
"There are two things to aim at in life: First, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second." (Logan Pearsall Smith)
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." (Buddha)
"Live with great expectations and great things will happen." (Art Fettig)
"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." (Goethe)
"When you run out of red, use blue!" (Pablo Picasso on flexibility and imagination)
"All children behave as well as they are treated." (Jan Hunt)
Thats what life is, a bunch of dreams, and you do what you can to try to make them happen. (Jeb Corliss - Professional Base Jumper - Squirell suit guy)
There are no limits, only the one you place on yourself. (Jeb Corliss - Professional Base Jumper - Squirell suit guy)
Your life is the way it is today because of you own actions and the decisions you have made.
Money does not change a person. It reveals who they really are.
"Take a lesson from the music industry and don't spend all your time suing people for misusing what you believe is your content — think instead about why they are doing this, and what it says about how your business is changing, and then try to adapt to that."
"He dropped me off, and he was like, 'Go! Live your life. I'm very proud of you.' And, 'Have a great time!'" she revealed. (Jack Nicholoson said to Lorraine Nicholson, Daughter)
"Well, he always tells me to look people in the eye and tell the truth and that's what I sort of tried to bring to this role," she said. (Jack Nicholoson said to Lorraine Nicholson, Daughter)
Children don't always listen, but they always watch.
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