I want to focus on the famous author Rudyard Kipling for this week’s Friday Filosophy. This is but a short selection of his works.
I always prefer to believe the best in everybody. It saves so much trouble.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son. (This is my own personal favorite.)
Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool.
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
The time is now.
Friday Filosophy #2015-8
It is only our 8th Friday Filosophy for 2015, and already the year is off to a busy start! Some words of wisdom for your weekend:
Example is leadership.
Albert Schweitzer
If you think you can or you think you can’t, either way you are right.
Henry Ford
Action is the foundation key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
The time is now.
Friday Filosophy #2015-7
I want to focus on the famous author Rudyard Kipling for this week’s Friday Filosophy. This is but a short selection of his works.
I always prefer to believe the best in everybody. It saves so much trouble.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son. (This is my own personal favorite.)
Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool.
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
The time is now.
Friday Filosophy #2015-6
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace
You cannot depend on your eyes when you imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
The time is now.
Friday Filosophy #2015-05
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore
There is a fountain of youth; it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
Dante Alighieri
Keep dreaming.
The time is now.
Friday Filosophy – A Special from D.K.
A list of sayings to enjoy from a very talented friend and colleague.
A Farmer’s Advice
Friday Filosophy #2015-4
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Thaddeus Golas
The time is now.
Friday Filosophy #2015-3
It is only our 3rd Friday Filosophy of the year, and we are off to a strong start.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Arthur Ashe
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.
Marcus Aurelius
The time is now.
Friday Filosophy 2015-2
It is time for our second Friday Filosophy of the New Year.
Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
Sophocles
Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at mediocrity will be far short of it.
Burmese Saying
The time is now.
Thought for the Day: Capital Goods Industry Management
Continuing with the philosophical, I want to share with you one of the approaches that I used when I was in a leadership position as an employee. One thing I teach – and this does not just apply to Capital Goods Industry Management, but to management in every industry – is that we manage process. We lead people. Obviously, I was very engaged with my team. Here is one of my standard approaches.
The responses to these questions allowed me to have a clear view of what my team thought was important.
The time is now…
Words of Wisdom 2015-1
Over the years, I have used various expressions to make a point or get the attention of a group. I have taken to calling these words of wisdom “Sleeisms.” Here is a short list of them. Enjoy.
The time is now…