Life long observations:
(1.) Well run companies don't need Caller ID in their Accounts Payable department.
(2.) OGUBA, the universal law of the universe. Yep, One Goof Usually Breeds Another. It's characterized by your dropping your Starbucks Coffee onto your lap while driving and then in your panic you drive smack into the rear end of a big log truck. So next time you make a mistake, be on the lookout for OGUBA to kick in.
(3.) Making money is not difficult. What's hard is holding on to it.
(4.) It is easy to sell if you give away your product, only a real salesman can sell at a price above the competition.
(5.) Incentives can improve production, but the reward must be paid very near the time of improved production, least we forget what was done that improved production.
(6.) Never pee uphill if you don't want to walk around in wet (and smelly) boots.
(7.) When offering terms to customers, be prepared to hire a "dialing for dollars" person in the accounting department.
(8.) A noisy bathroom fan is a good thing when the bathroom is off a crowded waiting room at the doctor's office.
(9.) "Never let the best you've ever done be the standard for the rest of you life." Jerry Ringo, my good friend and mentor, who had had extraordinary succes by the time he died at the age of 26, told me this. So this is a tribute to him.
(10.) In customer-supplier relationships, big companies tend to walk on smaller ones, regardless of which is the customer and which is the supplier.
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He
who throws dirt always loses ground.
The very first law in
advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the
delightfully vague.
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass
for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of
sense.
Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise
hath she need of an author.
Don't think, just do.
The man who
suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
Let us endeavor so to live that
when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
There
is something about going to sea. A little bit of self-discipline and humility are required.
Early to bed, early to
rise, work like hell, and advertise.
The only solid and lasting
peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
Action
makes more fortune than caution.
Heaven finds an ear when sinners
find a tongue.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence
is a problem, which he has yet to solve.
Enthusiasm is the mother of
effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
We pay
when old for the excesses of youth.
Money will make us powerful,
butter will only make us fat.
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