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Category Archives: Quotes to inspire
The only constant is change….
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." George Bernard Shaw
Give it a shot…
"You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.’" Wayne Gretzky
Being happy is infectious.
Every day when I am getting ready for work…. I think about how my day is going to go. Many days I talk out loud to myself, sometimes to the mirror (my husband is used to it but he still laughs at me). I create the day. If I do this I usually have a great day and get a lot done. I loved this quote that my friend Shona Mackin forwarded to me. "There is real magic in enthusiasm….
A Steve Jobs’ Lesson in Leadership
I have long been an admirer of all things Apple. I worked for them many years ago (in fact I was at Apple during the several years that Jobs was not). Apparently it is a very different organization culturally now than it was then. The question remains would Apple have even survived if Jobs had not returned – and now Apple has been named the most admired company in the US by Fortune Magazine. Jobs speaks on his demanding reputation:…
Identity and experience
One of the statements we use regularly at RedBalloon is “Life is the sum of your experiences”, so when Kate, my colleague shared this quote with me – I thought I had to share it further. "Who you think you are is not real-but a concoction of past events, desires and memories. This concoction has a life of its own. It motors through time and space experiencing only the things that it knows. A new experience isn’t really new; it’s…
Have a huge day…
I’m going to tackle something today that I have been putting off – I read the quote below this morning and thought, ‘get on with it’. “Dream like you will live forever, live like you will die today” James Dean
If it is meant to be it is up to me?
I have used this mantra for years – always believing that I was the starting point for my own destiny. A friend recently asked me to ready Nepoleon Hill ‘Think and Grow Rich’ and I liked this poem written in the book but there is no reference as to who wrote it originally. If you think you are beaten, you are, If you think you dare not, you don’t If you like to win, but you think you can’t, It…
Challenges bring opportunities
My father always said to me that I would be judged not by the things I did like doing but by those that I did not like doing, which to me as a young girl sounded like just plain hard work. I found this quote which resonated loudly and reminded me of my fathers thoughts on a work ethic. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands…
Imagine running a business based on fun - that's what I decided to try when I left a very serious corporate career in marketing to set up RedBalloon...
Unreasonable George…
You may have come across these before. I had a very challenging day yesterday and I had to remind myself that ‘if it was easy everyone would do it’. So I pulled out these quotes from George Bernard Shaw to remind me of what it takes. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him… The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself… All progress depends on the unreasonable man." "People are always blaming their circumstances for what…