Posts from 12/7-9/14

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
- 1 John 4:8

 Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.
- Isaiah 55:6

 I'm here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.
- Mark Zuckerberg

 For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
- John Burroughs

 What helps people, helps business.
- Leo Burnett

 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
- Matthew 5:9

 A man can’t be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.
- C. S. Lewis

 Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.
- Thomas J. Watson

 In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
- Harold Geneen

 Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.
- Isaiah 26:4

 There was a stillness of silence within me, and I heard the bliss whereby I knew myself as I am.
- Allogenes

 The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building – steadily building.
- Robert Collier

 Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
- Jawaharial Nehru

 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- Matthew 6:19-21

 If you do what you do well enough, long enough, consistently enough and fast enough, you will win the race.
- Peter Padilla

Posts from 11/19-22/14

Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
- Ephesians 4:29

 Books, like friends, should be few, and well chosen.
- Samuel Paterson

 There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
- Christopher Morley

 Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.
- Michael Jackson
 
For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
- Hebrews 3:4

 In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson

 Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
- Leo Burnett

 When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.
- Anonymous

 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
- 2 Corinthians 13:14

 Great hopes make great men.
- Thomas Fuller

 Spending today complaining about yesterday, won't make tomorrow any better.
- Author Unknown

 If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
- B C Forbes

 Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
- Romans 15:7

 I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot...and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
- Michael Jordan
Professional Basketball Player

 A strong positive self image is the best possible preparation for success in life.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

 The best things we know and love started as tiny things.
- Joel Gascoigne

 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.
- Romans 5:3-4

 One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
- Thomas Fuller

 You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
- Harold Geneen

 Out of billions of people in the world, you get to decide exactly which people become the major influences in your life.
- Perry Marshal

 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
- Proverbs 16:18

 If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

 Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
- Psalm 95:1-2

Posts from 10/21-23/13

Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side.
- Zig Ziglar

 A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
- Henry Ford

 Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
- John 6:28, 29

 If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

 No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
- J P Getty

 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
- John 3:20-21

 All great achievements require time.
- Maya Angelou

 And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
- Philippians 1:9-10

 You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C.S. Lewis

When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.
- Psalm 34:17

 Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.
- Larry Winget

 It is not joy that makes us grateful. It is gratitude that makes us joyful.
- David Rast

 Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
- Matthew 5:11-12

 There are three things that you should spend you time doing: Marketing, marketing, marketing.
- Emma Harrison

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

 If you wait, all that happens is you get older.
- Larry McMurtry

Rules! Hell, there are no rules here...we're trying to accomplish something.
- Thomas Edison

 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
- Romans 8:6

 What helps people, helps business.
- Leo Burnett

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot

Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.
- Eddie Barclay

Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.
- Proverbs 29:25

 Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

Posts from 10/3-7/13

We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.
- C. JoyBell C

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything.
- John Wooden

 You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
- Matthew 5:43, 44

 You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
- Philippians 4:4

 Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
- Ben Jonson

 Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.
- 1 Peter 3:8

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.
- Ray Bradbury

 I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
- Booker T. Washington

 Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
- Confucius

 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
- Matthew 6:19, 20

 To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
- Robert Burton

 People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
- George Allen, American Football Coach

 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.
- Philippians 2:1-2

 Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of being.
- John Wooden

 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
- Romans 1:16, 17

 Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Harper Lee

 Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
- Tom Stoppard

 Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
- Psalm 23:6

 Faith is daring to put your dream to the test. It is better to try to do something and fail than to try to do nothing and succeed.
- Robert H. Schuller

 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
- 1 John 4:16

 Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
- Leo Burnett

 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
- James 3:13

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
- Benjamin Franklin