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The question is: How worried are you worried are you about a full-blown depression? 

One respondent answered:

It’s downright depressing, and even worse when you can’t afford your antidepressants!

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"A girl aged 10 or 12 can be married. Those who think she's too young are wrong and they are being unfair to her."  --Head Saudi Cleric Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh, the kingdom's grand mufti as quoted on cnn.com

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"About 90% of our customers speak Spanish and half of those speak English as well," says Roberto Reyes of Reyes Auto Repair in Santa Cruz , California , "we have to know every auto part in both English and Spanish.  This gives us a big advantage over shops that do not speak both languages." 

"We directly import from Mexico and all my suppliers speak Spanish," says Bertha Diaz of Artesania Mexicana in Castroville, California , "but almost all my customers speak English so we have to speak both languages to be in this type of import business."  

"We speak the language of our customers.  Probably 80% of our customers speak some English but 20% do not," says Wayne Medina of Medina's Construction Company, Santa Cruz, California, "if we did not speak Spanish we would immediately lose 20% of our business." 

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"Your smoking behavior depends upon not just the smoking behavior of the people you know but also the people who they know," and so on, said Dr. Nicholas Christakis, a medical sociologist at Harvard Medical School and lead author of the report.   The findings back up studies showing that peer influence plays a key role in people's decision to stop lighting up and provide evidence that the "buddy system" used by smoking cessation, weight loss and alcoholism programs to change addictive behavior works.    --AP at www.cnn.com

We knew this downturn was coming over a year ago.  We know other companies throughout the country and they started having sales drops way before we did.    Some say we are isolated from those bad effects and that is just not true; we just get the effects later.   --Tom Demeo, Tile and Marble Outlet, Santa Cruz and Watsonville, California

On his own, however, he developed a passion for the perils of the hunt almost as great as his yen for acquisition -- or as he puts it in the "Temple of Doom", "fortune and glory".  --Gene Seymour of Newsday in www.mercurynews.com

Some people think so many things;   So many things that are not so; Never mind their taunts and stings; You and I, dear -- know. --Ruth Mason Rice

We remain optimistic no matter what.  If we have a slight dip, well that is business.  Overall we keep growing though at a controlled pace.   That is why we are so optimistic about the future.  --Gina Lyons, Lyons Marble and Granite, Watsonville and Santa Cruz, CA www.lyonsmarble.com

Do what you will, but not because you must.  --Zen Koan

A genuine word of kindness is often the best lever to raise a depressed spirit to its natural level.  The art of saying appropriate words in a kindly way is one that never goes out of fashion, never ceases to please, and is within the reach of the humblest.  --Arthur Helps

I didn't want the brand to die so I bought the company.  --Mary Cody, Polar Bear Ice Cream, Santa Cruz, California www.santacruzpolarbear.com

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Talking explores history.  Doing rewrites it.  www.ibm.com/dna

The true art of memory is the art of attention.  --Johnson

As it relates to training and development, community involvement and human resources should work together to determine which skills can be enhanced by volunteer service; which volunteerism opportunities can help deliver results; and how the outcomes can be measured, just as one would with other training investments.  --Teresa Briggs in www.mercurynews.com

From what I see now, Clinton seems to have a stronger path to the electoral college today.  --Superdelegate Chris Stampolis

Retired but busy.  Wireless but easy.  Verizon

Stop talking, start doing.  www.ibm.com/dna

I'd have to take another fresh look at Obama.  I know it's a fresh face and change,but I'm not really sure of what is really behind that.  Could it be fluff? --Superdelegate Avygail Sanchez

The number of fat cells in the body is set by the end of adolescence and never changes.  Gaining or losing weight only changes the amount stored in each cell.  The research suggests why it is so hard for overweight people to keep off the weight they have lost.  --Betsy Mason, Medianews

When the facts change, I change my opinion.   What do you do sir?  --John Maynard Keynes

Scents have an uncanny ability to trigger memories because they are the only sense that directly connects to the part of the brain that stores emotional memories and new research suggests that they may also consolidate new knowledge and facilitate learning.  --Andrew Weil at www.drweil.com

The Internet is routinely used when making buying decisions, but its influence is small compared to offline channels such as friends and sales personnel.  --Associated Press

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After a while, you start noticing people wearing the lapel pin but not acting very patriotic.  My attitude is that I'm less concerned with what you're wearing on your lapel than what's in your heart. You show your patriotism by how you treat your fellow Americans, especially those ones who serve. --Barrack Obama quoted by www.cnn.com

Wrong. Midwestern bigotry, idiocy, and ignorance have NEVER been the values of America. --CNN political blog

Imagination rules the world.  --Napoleon

There is no happiness in having and getting, but only giving.  Half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness.  --F.W. Gunsaulus

Nothing is difficult if you divide it into small jobs.  --Henry Ford

It is true that everything in this life is transitory and filled with uncertainty, but it is lamentable that anyone should ignore this fact and keep on trying to seek enjoyment and satisfaction of his desires.  --Dendo Kyokai

A character is a perfectly formed will.  --Novalis

He who is firm in will moulds the world to himself.  --Goethe

Fortune, to show us her power, and  abate our presumption, seeing she could not make  fools wise, has made the fortunate.  --Montaigne

The human mind is an aggregate of causes and conditions.  It is in constant change.  --Dendo Kyokai

In a hierarchy, every employee rises to his level of incompetence.  --Laurence J. Peter

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The children of immigrants, even if they don't grow up speaking their parents' language, can learn it to required proficiency in 16 weeks.  It takes people without that cultural heritage  about 63 weeks.  --Pamela Hess, Associated Press

As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939 an American senator declared: 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history." --George Bush quoted by www.cnn.com

Those working class blue collar voters that Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama are trying so hard to woo have suddenly become  fair game for Sen. McCain.  This presidential campaign gets more fun everyday.  --Kirch DeMartini

To suggest any white voter is racist because the individual does not see Obama as the best candidate is another form of racism.  --John Lowery

Obama tried, not for the first time, to deflect and counter criticisms by articulating his view of foreign relations,  one in which military might is accompanied by diplomatic engaging with all countries, including enemies. --Larry Rohter, NY Times

He has the deed half done who has made a start.  --Horace

You can actually handle dragonflies with care and release them unharmed, whereas it is virtually impossible to do that with butterflies.  --Martin Reid

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.  --Thoreau

There is only one success -- to spend your life your own way.  --Christopher Morley

I just don't get it.  They appreciate my sense of independence, then scold me for thinking outside the box.  --Vic Lee in Pardon My Planet

Gay marriage?  I'm all for it.  I think everyone should have the right to be miserable.  --Tom Krassowski in the www.mercurynews.com

By the way, we are still way ahead of you over here in France where it is legal to wed a dead person (no kidding.)  --Patrick Mattimore

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As for chaos theory specifically, search engine optimization is also directly tied in with the observation and management of minute changes within the system. Tweaking is often the term used in this regard. These small changes, when applied correctly, can prove to have vast effects on the system as a whole.  --Devon Peterson

A weed is a treasure and a treasure is a weed.  --Zen Koan

Lori Drew of Suburban St. Louis, Mo. who allegedly helped create a MySpace account in the name of someone who didn't exist to convince young  neighbor Megan Meier she was chatting with a 16 year old boy named Josh Evans, was charged with conspiracy and fraudulently gaining access to someone else's computer.  Megan hanged herself at home in October 2006, allegedly after receiving a dozen or more cruel messages, including one stating the world would be better off without her.  --Linda Deutch from Associated Press

The governor is fond of saying that California's government does not have a revenue  problem it  has a "spending problem".  It's time for him to change his mantra, or at least admit that, after all these years, the problem is now his own."  --Daniel Weintraub, Sacramento Bee

Whatever strengthens and purifies affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.  --Shelley

Joy is not in things; it is in us.  --Wagner

From meat to mustard, consumers are trying to control their food bills by buying smaller-size items as they grapple with soaring food prices.  Companies have taken note, experimenting with different measures like three quarter gallon milk jugs and pies that have shrunk to 6 inches.  --Anne D'Innocenzio of the Associated Press

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five pound note.   He or she radiating focus of good-will; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.   They practically demonstrate the great Theorem of the Livableness of Life.  --Robert Louis Stevenson

The idea for tech vendors is to make getting into it free.   Then once you suck them in, you have to make it enough of a value so that they will part with their money.  --Sharon Noguchi in www.mercurynews.com

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Every duty we  omit obscures some truth we should have known.  --Ruskin

The Maya are alive, their works can be seen in the construction of great hotels, they are the workers and they are Maya, they are waiters but also Maya, they are also professionals, therefore we are not a lost race.  -- Gonzalo Pech Chuc member of the Academia de la Lengua y Culturas Mayas de Quintana Roo AC.

The U.S. always seems to find the means to reinvent itself in ways that Japan -- and much of Europe --often lacks.   --Stephane Garelli

There are good reasons Republicans are focusing on indentity rather than issues this year: in poll after poll, there's not a single major issue on which the public agrees with them or their presumptive nominee.  --Harold Meyerson

I cannot think but that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell  on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty.  --John Lubbock

The biggest step communities can take to overcome our driving addiction is to mandate higher density and mixed-use development.  This will curb the unbridled exurban subdivision and mall sprawl that forces auto use for every perceived need.  Mixed-use development provides a variety of homes, jobs, shopping and parks in urban or suburban neighborhoods so people can live, work and play without necessarily driving.  --Warren Karlenzig of Common Current

People who pedal their bikes to work actually get punished as they are filtering the exhaust gases from the SUVs, trucks, etc.  As a courtesy to the imbecilic car culture around here, all you inhale are gas and diesel fumes.  If we want a clean environment, let's tax the inefficient trucks and SUVs off the road, but not asphyxiate bicyclist and pedestrian.  --Marc Moisson in the www.mercurynews.com

For people to achieve all that is demanded of them, they must regard themselves as greater than they are.  --Johann Goethe

It seems to me that one who has 18 children yet depends on no government help in raising those children is taking responsiblity for her actions.  As long as she stays out of my wallet, she can do whatever she wants.  It is when a person dips into my hard-earned income that I take offense.  --David Hildreth in the www.mercurynews.com

Even if they have the means to support so many children, how can they ignore the impact of such procreation on Planet Earth?  Do we wait for over-population woes (such as China) before taking personal responsiblity?  And why, oh why does the media glamorize such irresponsible behavior? --Jeane Hendricks in the www.mercurynews.com

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Please Don't Hit Me,  I'm Not 100% sure about my coverage.  --State Farm Insurnace bumper sticker

I find the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.  --Thomas Jefferson

Just like black holes, wormholes suck in particulate objects, and also like black holes, they also travel at escape velocity, which is, the speed to get out of there is faster than the speed of light.   I'd like to prove that  wormholes are really there and prove all the theories are correct.  --10 year old college student Moshe Cavalin

Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure; the long nights you have devoted to work.  Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep; the trains you never failed to catch.  --Max O'Rell

In other words, if one felt comfortable then this secure, comfortable feeling was an indication that one had fallen behind the innovation curve, a detriment to success.  The implication was that innovation is inherently a tenuous and uncertain thing and that making it into a 'comfort' thing is very bad strategy.    --JD Deal

Make medicine from suffering.  --Zen Koan

A rose to the living is more than sumptous wreaths to the dead. --Nixon Wateman

It is a sad thing to reflect that in a world so overflowing with goodness of smell,  of fine sights and sweet sounds, we pass by hastily and take so little note of them.  --David Grayson

The world is so full of wondrous things, how can anyone be bored?  --JD Deal on www.twitter.com

There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world.  It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might have been said or might have been done that never can be said or done.  --Arthur Hopkins

Make online offers that leverage your search content.  --Anonymous

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The last Russian doomsday members quit their hide-out after officials found the bodies of two female cult members who died in the cave and warned survivors they could be poisoned by fumes from the decomosing bodies.  --David Nowalk, Associated Press

It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.  --Sir Walter Scott

It's a $14 trillion dollar economy.  Every three months, 7 million Americans change jobs.  Presidents aren't powerful enough to steer this colossus.  --Robert Samuelson, Washington Post

I think estimates that we are near the bottom of the housing correction will prove to be overly optimistic.  We have had a housing bubble and it will take some time to deflate.  --Len Blum, Westwood Capital

You smile, the world changes.  --Zen Koan

There are two worlds; the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.  --Leigh Hunt

Bad temper is its own scourge.  --Charles Buxton

Consider how few things are worthy of anger, and thou wilt wonder that any fools should be wroth.  --Robert Dodsley

these rigid mental constructs of ours can only be destroyed by trauma or gestalt changes; small incremental changes only leave them intact  --JD Deal on twitter.com

I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.  --Muriel Strode

All that the poor can offer is favors.  --Howard of Penrith

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The world is so full of such wondrous things, how can anyone be bored?  --JD Deal

Everybody looks good on paper.  --John Y. Brown

When you begin a response with "no", you place the sales dialogue in jeopardy because the buyer may not be able to see past your refusal.  --Sue Hershkowitz-Coore

With Zen, everyday is a good day.  Without Zen, even good days are bad days.  --Zen Koan

Greed is the evolutionary consequence of the 'hoarding instinct'; a dynamic in the social evolution of greedy humans.  In the very old days those that hoarded for the winter did not starve as readily as those that did not.   This hoarding instinct is a species trait even though most of us don't face daily starvation.  --JD Deal

A leader deals in hope.  --Napoleon Bonaparte

See how true merit in the life of man runs broad and deep, to execute his will, how, like a river, man in varied poise, the greater be the life, the less the noise.  --Octave F. Ursenbach

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we  would find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.  --Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of being, is the only goal of life.  --Robert Louis Stevenson

If you want to succeed in the world, you must make your own opportunities as you go on.  The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find the seventh wave is a long time a coming.  You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until some one comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth and influence.  --John B. Gough

You can always spot well-informed people.  Their views are the same as yours.  --Ilka Chase

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My boss left early today and I had to deal with one big crisis  after another.  I finally told everyone to put their heads down on  their desks until  things straighened themelves out.   

Have you ever considered giving seminars to executives?

Well, yeah.  More managers need to know about these techniques.   --Cartoon strip Blondie by Young

Scientists have more respect for elevated spiritual states.  Andrew Newburg of the University of Pennsylvania has shown that transcendent experiences can actually be identified and measured in the brain (people experience a decrease in activity in the parietal lobe which orients us in space.)  The mind seems to have the ability to transcend itself and merge with a larger presence that feels more real.  --David Brooks

Patience is not swatting your husband when he refuses to wear his hearing aid.  --Brian Crane in Pickles

Never rub your hashi together as if trying to kindle a fire.  Never point with your hashi.  Or wave them.  Or drum them on the bar.  Do not use them to spear pieces of food.  Never leave your hashi stuck in a bowl of food, particularly a bowl of rice.  --David Plotnikoff in the www.mercurynews.com

The more we do, the more we can do.  --William Hazlitt

The  wave and the sea are one.  --Zen Koan

Just as the Origin of Species reshaped social thinking, just as Einstein's theory of relativity affected  art, so the Revolution in neuroscience is having an effect on how people see the world.   --David Brooks, New York Times.

When the sky is clear the sun appears, when the earth is parched rain will fall.  He opened his heart fully and spoke out, but it was useless to talk to pigs and fish.  --Mumon

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In my zeal to oppose anti-Semitism and bigotry in all its ugly forms, I have often emphasized the darkest chapters in the history of Catholics and Protestant relations with the Jews.  In the process I may have contributed to the mistaken impression that the anti-Jewish violence of the Crusades and the Inquisition defines the Catholic church.  --John Hagee

I burn the books in my bag.   But the verses written in my guts cannot be forgotten.  --Zen Koan

What is really going to help McCain win Hispanic support in November is  the same  thing that has earned him so much of it up to now.  It's called character, and Hispanics -- like many other Americans -- may not always be able to define it.   But they know it when the see it.   --Ruben Navarrete, Jr. from the San Diego Union-Tribune

I'm always ready to learn, but I don't always like being taught.   --Winston Churchill

On the whole, the cost of designing and building a school, say a three-story junior high school in Mexico City, is only about 5 percent higher.  You don't necessarily design a building to avoid collapse , but design so that it's a survivable collapse.  You want large voids so they can be accessed by rescuers.  --Ben Wisner

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk  his well-being, to risk  his life, in a great cause.  --Theodore Roosevelt

More than 1,000 California properties were foreclosed upon each weekday in April, setting a bleak new record for the state's troubled housing market, while foreclosures in Santa Clara County surged 585 percent from a year earlier.  --Sue McAllister in the www.mercurynews.com

We confess our little faults only to persuade others we have no great ones.  --La Rochefoucauld

Business is solid at Wal-Mart while other competitors are hurting.  But it is a bad barometer for  the U.S. economy, that even though Wal-Mart is king  of  everyday low prices, shoppers still have to buy less and shift to more cash than credit.  --Burt P. Flickinger III of Strategic Resource Group.

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Never stop exploring.   -- Anonymous

Courage does not consist in feeling no fear, but in conquering fear.  He is the hero who seeing the lions on either side goes straight on, because there his duty lies.  --Saturday Magazine

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. --Josh Billings

Look and see with your own eyes.  If you hesitate, you miss the mark forever.  --Zen Koan

When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on them and improve his conduct.  When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.   --Dendo Kyokai

We make our own fortunes and call them fate.  --Benjamin Disraeli

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California today will propose borrowing against future state lottery revenue to help close a $15.2 Billion budget deficit in the next fiscal year.  --Juliet Williams of AP

If you meet a fencing master on the road, you may give him your sword; if you meet a poet you may offer him your poem.  When you meet others, say only a part of what you intend.  Never give the whole thing at once.  --Mumon

A REAL prospect is Ready to buy, Eager for the outcome your product/service/idea offers, At this time, interested Listening with a  desire to a buy a product like yours.  --Sue Hershkovitz-Coore

It is only through labor and prayerful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.  --Teddy Roosevelt

Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste  of life lies in the love we have not  used, the selfish prudence that will risk  nothing, and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.  No  one ever yet  was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime "let out all the length of all the reins."   --Mary Cholmondeley

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It's not just that we aren't on the same page.  We're not on the same book.  We're not even on the same side of the library.  --Hillary B. Price in "Rhymes with Orange".

Society affect to estimate men by their talents, but really feels and knows them by their character.  --Henry David Thoreau

What are you doing?

Throwing away some of our money. 

What? 

Chill out. This is "disposable income".

Glenn McCoy in The Duplex.

According to the new report, Jackson reviewed the records of actress Farah Fawcett on 104 days from July 1, 2006 to May 21, 2007.  She also looked at the records of pop  star Britney Spears, whose medical files have  been viewed inappropriately by dozens of other UCLA workers,  according to the report.  --Charles Ornstein of the LA Times on snoops in UCLA medical files

Every child saved with my help and help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a  title to glory. --Irena Sendler who saved an  estimated 2500 children during the Holocaust as quoted by Monika Scislowska of  the Associated Press

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.  It will  lighten sickness, poverty, and affliction; convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render  deformity itself agreeable.  -- Addison

I am unique.  Where else will you find a woman who grew up in East LA, had a top 10 hit in her teens, trained boxers with her father, went undefeated in four fights of her own, drove a truck for Fedex to make ends meet and attended college to become a "woman cop"?  --Ersi Arvizu from the '70's band El Chicano

Procreation is a biological  act involving choice, chance and other factors, not the simplistic "God's will".  People should at least take responsiblity for their actions, not blame their misguided irresponsibility on God.  Especially in light of the overpopulation of the 21st  century,  such ignorance is practiced  under the guise of religion is simply shameful.  --Rev. Ernest W. Cockrell

I will not shirk the mantle of leadership that the United States bears.  I will not permit eight long  years to pass without serious action on serious changes.  --John McCain

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The wretch enjoys a moment's  relief when the mystic chord is  temporarily slackened by a neighbor's fall; but his agony immediately begins again, for he anticipates another twitch as soon as the fallen is restored to prosperity.  --W. Arnot

If we started eliminating prospects based off of accusations that college players have taken money or gifts, there wouldn't be anyone left to draft.   --ESPN

How many planes can you fly on?  How many pairs of shoes can you wear? --Robert Morse on 'Say on Pay' compensation for corporate executives

It's been said that freedom is participation in power.  By that definition, how much power do we have?  We've been stripped of it. --Ralph Nader

They can  cover more ground than you can in your car, so unless you know you are  moving away from the tornado the best thing you can do is find a strong structure. --Andy Foster, National Weather Service meteorologist.

Here's a painless way for Cabrillo Junior College to save money: Quit sending glossy schedules to every mailbox in our area.  I constantly receive two copies due to an unused address in my home.  Is is too much to ask that interested students go to the campus and obtain a copy?  --Steve Bankhead of  Watsonville quoted in www.santacruzsentinel.com

The rise in oil  prices isn't the result of runaway speculation; it's  the result of fundamental factors, mainly the difficulty of finding oil and the rapid growth of emerging economies like China. --Paul Krugman, New York Times

What I spent I lost, what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.  --Addison on a graveyard epitaph

France consumes only half as much oil per capita as America, yet the last time I looked, Paris wasn't a howling wasteland.  But the odds are that we're looking at a future in which energy conservation becomes increasingly important, in which many people  may even -- gasp --take  public transit to work.  Paul Krugman, New York Times

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Posting about 30 million ads each month; Craigslist is an abiding source of misery for the newspaper industry.  Scott Duke Harris in the www.mercurynews.com

At investment conferences, people keep asking ...how are you going to make lots of money?   And we say,  'hey, not interested.'  Because once you are living well, and maybe providing for your future, what's the point in more?"  Craig Newmark of www.craigslist.com

If she hadn't opened the door with a knife in her hand...she'd still be alive.   Mike Gilbert on O.J. Simpson's  alleged confession.

It really snowballed.  I know  this doesn't bode well, but Obama  is like a cult.  --Ana  Yang

Obama's claim to being a uniter, reaching across the table and ending the war,  was never visible in his short congressional history, but his ego allows him to act as if it did.  --Linda Sides

Our patent system faces increasingly complex applications, which is why -- despite significant productivity initiatives -- the patent office currently has a backlog of  760,000 patents and the average  patent exam takes 31 months. --Carlos Gutierrez, U.S. Secretary of Commerce

If China ever were to become a truly free political system, it might actually become more and not less aggressive.  -- Joshua Kurlantzick in the LA Times.

The only truly legitimate reasons for government regulation of any business are to protect the public  from dangers to  health and safety or fraud.  But those  who want to legislate their competition out of business constantly misuse those principles.  --Dan Walters of the Sacramento Bee

Legal process  outsourcing is being called the next big thing in Indian  business.  It marks India's climb up the chain of outsourcing jobs -- from low end, back office service functions to high value skilled legal work.   --Rama Lakshmi of the Washington Post

True courage is the result of reasoning.   A brave mind is always impregnable.  Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins; and a just sense of honor and of  infamy, of duty and religion, will  carry us farther than all the force of mechanism.  --Jeremy Collier

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We can bring together a large number of skilled lawyers in no time at one-fifth the cost. --Srinivas Pingalli of Quattro on legal outsourcing to India.

Residents say children as young as 12 have been recruited by child labor rings, equipped with fake identification cards and transported hundreds of miles across the country to booming coastal cities, where they work 12 hour shifts to produce much of the world's toys, clothes and electronics.  David Barboza of the New York Times  in Liangshan, China.

In some  cases, generals' names were scribbled onto boxes of foreign aid before being distributed.  --Associated Press on the relief efforts in Burma. 

We stand in our own shadow and wonder why it is dark.  --Zen Koan

Fortunately, with ongoing and new technological advances of viewing and researching brain function, scientists have learned that the brain is not fixed in form and  function -- but can heal and mend itself as it helps improve its owner's quality of life.  --Offra Gerstein in the www.santacruzsentinel.com

"But what would become  of this place after my memories faded?" he wonders.  Without memories to give life to the artifice of Second Life, how would  this digital facsimile sustain him?  Unless maybe, "after my 'first life' memories were gone, I would no longer miss what I'd lost."  --Frazier Moore on switching to a virtual reality. 

Courage is resistance  to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.  --Mark Twain

A growing number of businesses and organizations have taken the hint and began setting up their own presences on  Twitter.   JetBlue, for example, answers traveler's queries and warns about weather-related delays.  --Rob Pegoraro of the Washington Post

There are very few things in this world worth having that can be had cheaply.  What we have come to call the strenous life is essential to all  acquisition.  One cannot get  his living for the asking;  he must work  for  his living.  --Francis G. Peabody

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What smart stores are doing is creating a new store experience --both online and off --so you are not just a merchandise retailer but an experience retailer.  It's all about what you can do to do to set yourself apart. --Craig Johnson

Researchers say blocking pleasure, especially the way the obesity drugs do, might take the fun out of many things, not just the harmful substances and behaviors these drugs target. --Marilyn Marchione  of  the Associated Press.

Obama will  never be at his best around Hillary; she drains him of his magical powers.  --Maureen Dowd

Powerset won't actually search the Internet.  It won't even search a subsection of the Internet.  Instead,  it  will try to  demonstrate the  potency of its natural language search technology by focusing on Wikipedia and Freebase.  Elise Ackerman  of the www.mercurynews.com

Permaculture gardening is an integrated approach, plants, animals, and nature work together to support a multidimensional ecosystem.  In other words, you're working with, not against, nature.  --Fran Sorin

Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates between happiness and sorrow, a good deed  and a bad deed, one  is able  to  realize freedom. --Dendo Kyokai in the Teaching of Buddha.

I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about  to eat cherries, that they might look  bigger and more tempting.  In like manner, I make the most of my enjoyments, and pack away my troubles in as small a compass as I can.  --Robert  Southey

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It wasn't worth living without my kids.  I had a big mental breakdown.  --Dolores Quinones' reaction when some of her 18 children were placed in foster care.

The U.S. uses about 21.5 million barrels of oil every day.  If lined up in one gallon cans, this daily usage would  completely circle the earth over six times.  Gary Riggs of Long Marine Laboratory www.ucsc.eduBa

There's a lot of hot air and arrogance in the business we all would be better off without. --Mike Moritz of Sequoia Capital on venture capital. 

In  Santa Cruz we  like to think about ourselves as wonderful, enlightened people but we're just like anybody else. --Simba Kenyatta i the www.santacruzsentinel.com

Babies born to mothers in prison generally are better off staying with them.  --Mary Byrne

Obama's problem with Rev. Wright back then wasn't that he was too radical but that he was too bourgeois.  Obama says he told Wright at their first meeting that he worried "tht the church is too  upwardly mobile."  --David Ignatius of the Washington Post

At Kleiner, we're trying to watch out language. --John Doerr

Realize that those repeated assertions do impact yoiur view of yourself, create a downcast emotional state that may easily lead to behaviors that will only confirm your erroneous view of yourself.  --Offra Gerstein

We're all frustrated because the average time to liquidity for a venture-backed company is now seven years. --Pascal Levensohn of Levensohn Venture Partners

Chinese entreprenuers are every bit as intense and every bit as ambitious as the very best entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.  --Jim Breyer,  Accel Partners as quoted at www.mercurynews.com

In China you have an economy that has the ability to move goods around cheaply.  I'm certainly not in Shanghai for the air.  --Gary Riechel, Qiming Venture Partners

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Even virtue is more fair when it appears in a beautiful person.  -- Virgil

Grandfather dies, father dies, son dies -- this is good fortune.   --Zen Koan

To be effective in a short innovation cycle,  you cannot just be sitting at your desk.  --Matthias Graf  of Google.

Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. --Charles Dickens

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.,  --A.C. Benson

We recall today with shame that 75 years ago -- not just here in Berlin but in all of Germany -- tens of thousands applauded and cheered as the books of Erich Kaestner, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Kurt Tucholsky and many others were thrown into the fire by students. --German President Horst Koehler

The great danger of unemployment insurance is that people are paid to be jobless.  -- Robert J. Samuelson in the Washington Post

The authorities cannot figure out who are the parents of these children, not only because the mothers and children are uncoperative, but because the incest is so convuluted that it would take a flowchart to begin to unscramble the mess.  --Laina Farhat Holzman on fundamentalist Mormon cult in Texas

A lawless person is never free.  He is a victim of his own unaccountable impulses and soon a slave to his bad habits.  --George Walter Fiske

This is going to require some either bold actions by management to change the direction of the business here shortly, or there's going to have to be some other strategic direction.  --BMO Capital Markets analyst Rick Weinhart on Circuit City's financial woes.

A foolish man always thinks only of the results, an is impatient without the effort that is necessary to get good results.  No good can be attained without proper effort, just as there can be no third story without the foundation and the first and second stories.  --Dendo Kyokai

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We want to target the smaller companies about to make a jump in size.  We're not going to get Sun or Cisco to move here, but we can go after  the faster  growing companies that are about to move away.  --Matt Shelton of JR Parrisish Commercial Real  Estate in making an appeal to the Scotts Valley City government to subsidize real estate advertising quoted in www.santacruzsentinel.com

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. --Goethe

It takes only weeks to strip down our constitutional freedoms  when we are concerned about our safety, but more than 18 years about regulating a business? --Busy Burr in the www.mercurynews.com

Memory is not wisdom;  idiots can by rote repeat volumes.  Yet what is wisdom without memory?  --Tupper

There's only one remaining chapter in this fascinating spectacle.  Negotitating the terms of Hillary's surrender.  After which we will have six months of watching her enthusiastically stumping the country for Obama, denying with utter conviction Replublican charges that he is the out of touch, latte sipping elitist she warned Democrats against so urgently in the last, late leg of her doomed campaign.  --Charles Krauthammer in the www.nytimes.com

Funny how the populist politicians want to keep the price of gas high; who do they think high gas prices affect the most?  -- JD Deal

Before you give up hope, think back and read the attacks that were made upon Lincoln. --Bruce  Barton

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You can always do a quick Internet search to learn more about customers, and this is sometimes a good idea.  Practically,  however, researching every business or consumer you call may not be a smart use of time.  --Sue Hershkowitz-Coore

Man's nature is like a dense thicket that has no entrance and is difficult to penetrate.  In comparsion, an animal is  much easier to understand.  --Dendo Kyokai

If you want to be miserable think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you. --Charles Kingsley

To find yourself is to lose yourself.  --Zen Koan

Clear writers,  like clear fountains, do  not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound. --Landor

The cynic is the one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.  --Oscar  Wilde

Read the best books first or you may never have a chance to read them at all.  --Thoreau

As  one grows older one is more impatient with subterfuges and shams generally, and increasingly desirous that the "last run" at least should be free from them.  The world is apparently so confused that the least one can do for it is to keep one's mental integrity and to hold honestly to such poor wisdom as one has been able to garner along the way.  --Jane Addams

In the world of nature there always exists an appropriate order and everything has its own function.  If this order is disturbed, the functioning is interrupted and the whole order will go to ruin.  --Dendo Kyokai

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Blogging can create an instant support system, especially at a time when you might not have the energy or resources to seek out people who've shared your experiences.  -- Margaret Mason, author of "No One Cares What You Had For Lunch"

To be suspicious is to invite treachery.  --Voltaire

The moon is often hidden by clouds, but it is not moved by them and its purity remains untarnished.  Therefore, people must not be deluded into thinking that this defiled mind is their own true mind.  --Kyokai in The Teaching of Buddha

Life is always difficult in proportion to it intensity and reality.  --Edward Howard Griggs

Prospects are likely to say yes if:  they need what you sell, you're prepared to sell it to them and you have an attitude of positive expectancy. --Sue Hershkovitz-Coore

Obama remains a speculative choice among many white voters,  especially after the  still simmering saga of Rev. Wright and the candidates less-than-satisfying explanations of why he remained associated with a pastor who  so adamantly held  such extreme views.  -- Santa Cruz Sentinel

Hillary emerged from a lifetime of government limos to bask as queen of the blue-collar prom.  Nobility is for losers.  --Maureen Dowd in the www.nytimes.com

The platypus is the only mammal to make venom, and the chemicals in it are almost identical to those in  some snake venoms.  --Rick Weiss

Why does Barack Obama want to increase taxes again and drive up the cost of gasoline on Americans.  -- Republican party website. 

The biggest problem for new managers seems to be the difficulty transitioning from their roles as "individual contributors" to  their new responsibilities delegating work, and coaching and overseeing the workers who do it.  --ConceptReserve

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Hillary Clinton is beginning to look like George Bush.  --Barrack  Obama

C'mon, give it up for me.  I.  Love.   This.  Company.  --Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO

In first marriages, men are typically a couple of years older than women.   The older men are when they marry, and it doesn't matter whether it's a  first or a second marriage, the more years they marry down.  --Paula England quoted in the www.mercurynews.com

Our message to the military rulers, let the United States help you to help the people.  --Laura Bush on the Burma cyclone aftermath.

Some would find fault with the morning-red, if they ever got up early enough...The faultfinder will find faults even in Paradise.  --Henry David Thoreau

If a signal arrives, they don't mind if  they're never able to decipher it.  Just the confirmation of of intelligent life outside of Earth is all the fulfillment they seek.  "It would be the greatest discovery in the hisory of mankind."  --Julius Sevrens Lyons on the search for extraterrestrial life through SETI

Men don't want to get old.  Women don't worry so much about it because we take care of ourselves. --Paulette Dickerson

For women, the marriage market may be limited to potential husbands who are significantly older, because many men of the same age are interested in younger women.  --Stephanie Coontz

Americans fixated on the political campaign may be missing the reality of a global era that may matter much more than their presidential choice: On a ever growing list of issues, the big decisions are being made or profoundly influenced by a little-understood international network of  business, financial, government, cultural and  military leaders who are beyond the reach of American voters.  --David Rothkopf

Possession, why more tasteless than pursuit?  Why is a wish far dearer than a crown?  That wish accomplished, why the grave of bliss?  Because, in the great future buried deep, beyond our plans, lies all that man with ardor should pursue.  --Young

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Obama's comments about small-town America being "bitter" were recorded by an Oakland blogger on  her MP3 player while attending a San Francisco fundraiser. –Mary Anne Ostrom of the www.mercurynews.com

If she gave him one of her cojones, they'd both have two.  –Democratic strategist James Carville on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.  

The recent environmental protests in China are organized through Web sites, blogs and cell phone text messages, illustrating how some Chinese are using digital technology to spur civic movements, which usually are banned by the police.  Organizers also used text messages to publicize their cause nationally. – Edward Wong of the New York Times

Elmo: When the time comes, I'll get a job that pays me to have fun. 

Dagwood: What if you have to take a job that isn't fun, Elmo?

Elmo: Ha! Ha! Who would do a dumb thing like that, Mr. B?

--from the comic strip Blondie by Young

"Do not revive, do not feed under any circumstance."  Suicide note left by D.C. Madam Deborah Jean Palfrey.

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"I believe recovery is a whole lot easier after you win."  Dallas Stars hockey coach Dave Tippett

In Mogadishu, the price of corn meal has more than doubled since January.  Rice has risen during the same period from $26 to $47.50 for a 110 pound sack.  "First we have been killed with bullets, now they are killing us with hunger," says protester Omar Hassan.   –Mohamed Olad Hassan of Associated Press

It was a serious sacrifice from me to ask for the first time in my life.  –Saddam Hussein on life in prison before he was executed.

"It seems that academia and the scientific community are all about free speech and critical thinking except when it comes to such pet topics as evolution through natural selection and manmade global warming."  Edgar Darwin in letter to Santa Cruz Sentinel.

They don't want regulations that would stabilize the economy but cramp their style.  –Thomas Friedman of the New York Times on wheeler dealers.  

The Seattle based company www.zillow.com calculated that nearly half the people who bought homes in Santa Clara County in 2006 were "upside down" in the first quarter or owed more money to their mortgage lenders than their homes were worth. –Sue McCallister, San Jose Mercury News www.mercurynews.com

Worried health officials will embark today on an aerial search for mosquitoes that carry the West Nile virus – with special attention to the 150 foreclosed homes with pools. –Leslie Griffey in the www.mercurynews.com

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"Capitalism without failure is like Christianity without hell".  –Warren Buffet

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Consultants, even the good ones, can fail because they only recommend a course of action; they still need  somebody motivated to implement, the consultant's job is no more  than an expensive academic excercise.  --Al Dunlap

Some people find oil.  Others don't.  --J. Paul Getty

To put your core purpose to work, you need mechanisms  -- the practices that bring what you stand for to life and stimulate change.  Mechanisms force things to happen that reinforce your company's core purpose,  converting that purpose to action.  --Jim Collins

If any one of the links breaks or fails, the customer is not going to be satisfied.  And one thing that has become apparent to us is that the leanest chain wins.  --Jeff Trimmer

This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of  it.  --Al Capone

Walk it through.  Ask the questions.  --Doug Melliniger

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it and when he can. --Mark Twain

I refuse to settle for mediocrity.  It always tries to pop up but I feel like my life is dedicated to getting rid of it.  As soon as I see it I start mixing things up.  --Katie Williams

Truthiness trumps dry logic, dull evidence and mere facts. It disdains or simply bypasses laborious intellectual examination in favor of what feels right.   David Barash

Here you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.  If you want to get  somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast at that.   The Queen in Alice and Wonderland

"I don't know about technology, and I don't know about finance and accounting".  Bernard Ebbers, Ex-CEO  of Worldcom

The rich are only tolerable so long as their gains can be held roughly what they have contributed to society.  --John Maynard Keynes

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Reframing the problem from a boss-employee situation to a work-group issue can be surprisingly effective. --Christopher Meyer

All your human resources classes are about motivating employees, goal setting and things like that.  But how do you recognize a bad decision, kill it, bite your tongue and move on?  You've got to be able to make decisions quickly, find out, and get out of them quickly.  They teach you a lot about how to be a success but not what to do when something goes wrong --when you fail,  which you are going to do.  --Art Dodge

Contrary to what some people claim, the tax laws have a lot of respect for logic.  They use it so sparingly.  --Jeffery Yablon

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.  --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fluid intelligence, or the ability to know how to do something, is growing while crystallized intelligence, the  possession of information, is decreasing.  --Wendy Williams

I don't believe people are bad.  But certain situations play on their weaknesses and lead them to do bad things.  I think that is the whole nature of temptation.  --David Bersoff

You can't fix what you don't know.  --Sam Geist

Apathy is habit forming.  --Jack D. Deal

We should be teaching how to think flexibly, to be mindful of all the different possiblities of every situation and not close off from information that could help.  Ellen Langer

People who are happy with their jobs aren't nearly as passionate about their situation as those who are frustrated.  --Al Gillen

You need one charismatic leader with fire in his belly.  The team counts, but the leader is key.  --Harry Newton

This simple question can eliminate any hesitation about delegation.  Ask yourself: "Can anyone else do this task besides me?"   If the answer is yes, delegate it.  Save your time and energy for the activities that only you can do. --Terri Lonier

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Iceland's combination of strong social policies and extensive use of renewable energy demonstrates that living within our environmental means doesn't mean sacrificing human well-being.  --New Economics Foundation

The Agriculture Department sent $1.1 billion in farm payments to more than 170,000 dead people over a seven-year period congressional investigators say.   --Mary Clare Jalonick

There's no real evidence that children benefit from playing with their parents, according to Utah State anthropologist David Lancy.  --Jennifer Barrett

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.  --Mark Twain

My own form of madness has been to spend my whole life putting color on canvas.  --Pierre Auguste Renoir

Of all the forms of wanton self-destruction, there is none more pathetic than that in which the human individual demands that in the vital relationships of life he be treated not as an individual but as a member of some organization.  --A.A. Bowman

It is the price of progress that there can never be consensus.  All creative advances are essentially a departure from agreed-upon ways of looking at things, and to over-emphasize the agreed upon is to further legitimatize the hostility to that creativity upon which we all ultimately depend.  --William H. Whyte, Jr.

The problem with communication is the illusion it has been accomplished.   --George Bernard Shaw

Most of the anger, frustration, misery, and despair in this world come from people clinging to past hurts and problems. The more you turn them over in your mind, the worse you’ll feel and the bigger they’ll look. Don’t try to fight misery. Let go and move on. Do that and you’ve removed just about all its power to hurt you.  --Adrian Savage

All those in disagreement with me, signify by saying "So long, gainful employment."  --Buddy Hickerson in the Quigmans

The study, which followed a large group for more than three decades, found that a person's chances of becoming obese increase dramatically after a close friend or relative fattens up.  The same happens when  someone close slims down.  --Judy Peres

We are all animals and the price we pay for not being a rock or a beach is our mortality.  --Jack D. Deal

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Four out of eight TEAMSTERS past presidents have been indicted.  http://www.unionfacts.com

I know there's deep inside me some lazy hippie who'd be perfectly happy to lay on the couch, smoke weed and watch the "Simpson" all day.  I'm really afraid of that guy.  I don't like him.  I don't want him around.  And my whole life is kind of constructed to avoid reverting to that guy: Stay busy.  Stay focused.  Try not to mess up.  --Anthony Bourdain

These are not just economic achievement gaps.  They are racial achievement gaps.  We cannot afford to excuse them.  We must take notice and action.  --Jack O'Connell, California State School Superintendent

We often conflate race and poverty when we talk about the achievement gap.  What this new data tells us is that something else is happening.  --Russlyn Ali

Our trajectory continues to be a positive one.  --Mary Ann Mays, Superintendent of the Pajaro Valley Unified School District that takes up to six years to teach English proficiency. 

To find yourself is to lose yourself.  --Zen Koan

The report found homegrown terrorists  often were indoctrinated in local "radicalization incubators."  Instead  of mosques, those places were more likely to be "cafes, cab driver hangouts, flop houses, prisons, student associations, non-governmental organizations,  hookah bars, butcher shops and bookstores."  --Tom Hays

Those who intentionally fabricated news that caused public anxiety and tarnished the nation's image would be harshly dealt with or even prosecuted if they broke the law.  Their news organizations will also be penalized.  --People's Daily Communist Party Newspaper in China

They accuse me of making plans to be in power forever or concentrate power.  We know it isn't like that.  It's power of the people.  So many lies in the world.   I doubt there is any country on this planet with a democracy more alive than the one we enjoy in Venezuela today.   http://www.mercurynews.com

The fact is, we don't have enough workers in this country to harvest our food.  Americans don't want to be farmworkers, and they aren't raising their children to be farmworkers.  Farmworkers don't even raise their children to be farmworkers.  --Tom Nassif

I would say let them fast until they starve to death, then that solves the problem.  Then we won't have a problem about giving them green cards because they're illegal aliens. --Michael Savage

One thing we know about creativity is that it typically occurs when people who have mastered two or more quite different fields use the framework in one to think afresh about the other.  --Marc Tucker

People in other classes may define the social structure by educational attainment, income levels and job prestige, but these men are more likely to understand the social hierarchy on the basis of who can look  out for themselves, who has the courage to be a fireman a soldier or a cop, who has the discipline to put bread on the table every night despite difficulties.  --David Brooks

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Have it your way.  --Burger King

You smile the world changes.  --Zen Koan

Bad company corrupts.  I Corinthians 15:33

There is a wide body of evidence going back several decades to suggest that low income students perform  better in middle class schools.  But, in practice, Moving to Opportunity was more like moving to mediocrity. --Richard Kahlenberg

For us, it's been amazing to see how people who owe back child care support seem to be able to come up with good chunks of money when it involves needing their passport.  --Adolfo Capestany

In aggregate terms, India remains a  very poor country.  With hundreds of millions of people mired in  grinding poverty, it has the world's largest concentration of economic misery.  --David J. Karl

Much like Spain, Latin American countries may dramatically improve their standards of living by becoming hosts to rich countries' retirees.  --Andres Oppenheimer

Once you have the testimony of the other two, it's hard to imagine how Michael Vick can stand alone and emerge successfully.  It's one of the most frightening  positions you can be in.  --Anne Coughlin

Say all you want about soccer parents, PTA meetings, etc. and how those parents run their lives by their kids' needs.  But many parents  don't have their children at the top of the list of worries.  --Sue Hutchison

We seem to be reverting to a much older pattern, when elites marry and a great many others live together and have kids.  --Peter Francese

Arguments that marriage can mean stability do not seem to change the attitudes of  poor people.  --Pamela Schmock

When you provide information about yourself, you are giving a bad person the opportunity to exploit your identity.  --John Boudreau

In much of the country, the growth in big houses is fueled by suburban homebuyers seeing luxury, rather than big families needing space.  --Gopal Ahluwalia

The TV show from the 1960's, the Ozzie and Harriet Show, shows even though they were not proficient actors, their scenes rarely seem scripted.  There never is the sense the players know how things will turn out, but rather that they are discovering life as it goes along.  --Robert Lloyd

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Imagination is more important than knowledge.   --Albert Einstein

U.S. consumers are increasingly shifting their attention away from traditional advertising-supported media in favor of entertainment such as the Internet, video games and cable TV, which consumers pay for.  --AP

If we become this outraged at the way Michael Vick treats dogs...then I won't give up hoping for more outrage at how the Chinese government treats its people.  --Bruce Tinsley in Mallard Fillmore

Unless the Chinese authorities take urgent measures to stop human rights violations over the coming year, they risk tarnishing the image of China and the legacy of the Beijing Olympics.  --Amnesty International 

I like Australians...they are a bit more Californian than Californians.  --Jack D. Deal

When high school was over, most of his classmates had no clue what turns their lives would take -- and that was OK.  They kicked around, joined the military or married young and divorced  before finding their way.  It struck me that today we expect kids to have their lives figured out before they get to college.  Why?  --Patty Fisher

Immersed in water, you stretch out your hands for a drink.  --Zen Koan

All the materialistic minutia goes out the window and mortality takes center stage.  No one cares if you're driving a Mercedes or have a time share in Tahiti or you're good friends with Clint Eastwood.  All that matters is that you're still here.  --Dave Newhouse

Californians wear flip-flops everywhere.   Australians go barefoot.  --Jack D. Deal

In deciding on the Brocade option-backdating scandal, the jurors in Judge Charles Breyer's courtroom passed judgment on what became our own arms race: the quest to recruit talent through lucrative options.  --Scott  Herhold

The Wave and the sea are one.  --Zen Koan

At least 1 million pounds of suspect Chinese seafood landed on American store shelves and dinner plates despite a Food and Drug Administration order that shipments first be screened for banned drugs or chemicals.  --AP

The origin of Tijuana's mala fama, its bad rep as a city of sin, has nothing to do with its Mexicanness and everything to do with its Americanness. --Josh Kun

In a new effort to crack down on illegal immigrants, federal authorities are expected to announce tough rules this week that would require employers to fire workers  who use false Social Security numbers.  --San Jose Mercury News

I find it amusing that those who voted to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in history in our generation are now criticizing me.  --Sen. Barack Obama

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When walking walk, when sitting sit.  But don't wobble!    --Zen Koan

A guy walks into a psychiatrist's office and says 'Doc, I need your help.  I think I'm a dog.  The psychiatrist replies 'well get up on the couch and we'll talk about it.'   They guy replies 'I can't, I'm not allowed on the couch.'  --Anonymous

If you are going to make it in the world of selling you've got to be tough, and easily the toughest, most irresistible force on earth is love.  You need to love life, the profession of selling, the prospects you deal with, your fellow man, your God, your country, and your family.  --Zig Ziglar

The Internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other,  creating stuff.  Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK but it doesn't bode well for long-term artistic vision.  It's just a means to an end.  Lets get out in the streets and protest instead of blogging.  --Sir Elton John

Simply put, poverty creates barriers to education among Filipino-Americans, Cambodian-Americans and Vietnamese-Americans -- the haves and the have-nots.  --Paul Fong

Don't the media have anything better to write about than Sen. Hillary Clinton's body parts?  And isn't it more than a bit sexist to take up the topic in the first place?  --Bonnie Erbe

Regardless of how reforms might inconvenience us or impact our personal lifestyles, our priority must be to convince our constituents that we are here to advocate their best interests, not those of well-connected lobbyists.  --Sen.  Russell Feingold

Young women in New York and several other of the nation's largest cities who work full time have forged ahead of men in wages, according to an analysis of recent census data.  The shift has occurred in New York since 2000 and even earlier in LA, Dallas and a few other cities.  --New York Times

A newscaster who had an affair with LA mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has been suspended for two months by the Spanish-language network Telemundo for violating conflict-of-interest policies.  Mirthala Salinas was having the relationship with Villaraigosa when she announced the news of the separation from his wife of 20 years.   --Raquel Maria Dillon

Now that Telemundo's internal review has reached a conclusion, it is my hope that we can all move forward.  --Antonio Villaraigosa

Someone's gotta do it.  No one's gonna do it. So I'll do it.  Your honor, I rise in defense of drunken astronauts.  --Charles Krauthammer

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The goal is to attack the other side with clean, sharp blows while you're moving faster than the opposition.  That was Wellington.  That was von Clausewitz.  I don't relate football to warfare other than in those dynamics, but the military axioms of von Clausewitz about people under stress, about the individual soldier, make it the best book on football.  --Bill Walsh

I fight authority, authority always wins.  --John Cougar Mellencamp

That strict middle-class home gave me a wall to pound on, something to sharpen myself against.  At the same time they taught me a number of values -- efficiency, punctuality, a sense of financial responsibility -- which may be 'bourgeois' but are nevertheless important to the artist.   --Ingmar Bergman

The simple stoves, which cost $114 a pair, burn 70% less wood than the open fires found inside the dirt floor shacks in Guatemala's countryside.  The new stoves prevent the homes and the lungs of those  living in the homes from filling with smoke.  The enclosed stoves mean fewer children stumble into open flames.  They mean less time devoted to gathering wood and less deforestation.  --Mike Cassidy

Bill was blessed with one of the greatest gifts you can have which is the ability to see the future potential of another human being.   --Steve Young on Bill Walsh

He looked at how to put everything together and how to do it differently.  I always said he was an artist and the rest of us blacksmiths pounding the anvil while he was painting the picture.  --Don Shula on Bill Walsh

Truth is he did not like to cast the image of the grander thinker, the great conceptual artist, and the whistled humanitarian,  even the wry comedian.  But he was very much a coach, with a coach's eye for skills, both ascendant and waning; for personalities, dominant and compliant; for the separate pieces and the greater whole; for strategies and tactics, for grace and brutishness -- all the things that separate football from a bar fight.  He built, disassembled, and rebuilt with cold, remorseless precision, and his ruthlessness did not always sit well with those pointed toward the door.  --Ray Ratto on Bill Walsh

I've told my officers it is strictly prohibited to stop vehicles with foreign plates, especially from California.  --Victor Zatarain, Tijuana police chief. 

Take a boy fishing today.  --Ideal Fishing Tackle box , 1950's.

Iron, like a lion in Zion.   --Bob Marley

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During the day, 60 percent admitted to checking their e-mail an average of three times a day while at work.  Only 15% describe themselves addicted to e-mail, but 40% said it is very or somewhat important to think about  e-mail accessibility while planning a vacation.  E-mail use on portable devices has  nearly doubled in the past three years.  --www.aol.com E-mail Addiction Survey

Anything that argues for higher interest rates and worsening credit conditions will be something that takes the air out of the market.  --Denis Amato

I hate having to wear wigs, sunglasses, and check my vehicle for bombs made of potassium and rusty nails.  It always puts me in a melancholy mood.  --Tom & Christine

There are 4,000 community development corporations around the country and they have not lifted residents out of poverty.  --David Brooks

Practice doesn't make perfect.  Perfect practice makes perfect.  --Bill Walsh

Human beings have a strong desire for approval and can accomplish a lot with daily doses of praise and censure.  Standards of behavior are contagious that way.  --David Brooks

Bill Walsh gave San Francisco a shot in the arm in some its darkest hours.  --Diane Feinstein

If one succeeds in convincing every hearer that his teachers, his friends, his associates, his competitors, have done badly by him,  he has at best won an empty victory.  Better far that he forget even legitimate grievances and turn an unfettered mind to constructive tasks.  --Weekly News Review from The White City Register, White City, Kansas May 22, 1930

Nick Rockefeller told Russo of two primary reasons why the elite bankrolled women's lib, one because before women's lib the bankers couldn't tax half the population and two because it allowed them to
get children in school at an earlier age, enabling them to be indoctrinated into accepting the state as the primary family, breaking up the traditional family model.  --Paul Joseph Watson

A person admitted to the Emergency Room for severe anxiety -- which may include symptoms like shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat and a sense of doom -- is monitored for cardiac problems, as the symptoms for both anxiety attacks and a cardiac event may be similar.  --Suzanne Bohan

The neurotic assumes too much responsibility; the person with the character disorder not enough.  When neurotics are in conflict with the world they automatically assume that they are at fault.  When those with character disorders are in conflict with the world they automatically assume the world is at fault.  --M. Scott Peck

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Thanks to podcasting, you don't have to  work for a  broadcast company to be a radio or video personality.  Increasingly, newspapers and other media  organizations are asking their print reporters to contribute podcasts.  --Larry Magid

Here, death roams cyberspace in all its spectral forms: senseless and indiscriminate, sometimes premeditated, often brutally graphic.  It is also a place where the living discuss this world and the next. --Meghan Barr on www.mydeathspace.com

Why in the name of Coco Chanel would hundreds of thousands of women plunk down more than $1000 for a handbag?  If you've ever wandered through the leather scented shops of Santana Row , you have seen these women.   They probably have a gerbil's nest of tattered Kleenex and unwrapped cough drops lining the bottoms of their purses  like the rest of us.  But they have forked over the equivalent of three months of car payments to  have something stylish to lug it around.  --Sue Hutchison

Our members are responsible in that they realize full-time ownership is not an option for them and would be unfair to the dog.  It prevents dogs from being adopted and then returned to the shelter by people who realize it wasn't a good fit.   Marlena Cervantes of www.flexpetz.com

I'd rather risk some fat kids than a whole generation so naive about marketing that by middle age they can still be manipulated by a dancing leprechaun.  --Joel Stein

As a coach, I know I have to start with smart players. It might not have been so important in past years, but today we're asking players to do so much and to know so many schemes. Without basic intelligence, they simply can't play. And if they're not just plain smart, they're not going to be able to do the things a sophisticated coach is going to ask. With the speed on the field today, their technique and knowledge of what they have to do has to be keen or they'll get buried.  --Bill Walsh

There are two kinds of management problems.  There's the kind you can solve by yelling and the kind you can solve by buying some sort of software.   That's why I created "some sort of software that yells."   --Scott Adams in Dilbert

The media followed up their over-hyping of Al Gore's flop of a "Live Earth" by underreporting he served Chilean sea bass, a threatened species, at his daughter's wedding.   Gore blamed this on the juicy deliciousness of the fish, noting that they taste somewhere in-between snail darter and bottlenose dolphin... --Bruce Tinsley in Mallard  Fillmore

Konrad Lorenz seems to me to come the closest to describing our behavioral pattens, seeing us as more instinctive than environmentally influenced.   --Bill Walsh

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The Americans want so much to be winners.  The fact they are sick with this illness, this winner's complex, is the main reason why everything in the world is so confused and complicated.   --Mikhail Gorbachev

I identify as a worker, nameless and without glory, like every other worker.  I have learned through suffering that the  worker is a thousand times more interesting and many-sided a  person than Rockefeller, Morgan, Coolidge, Gloria Swanson or Tom Mix.  --Ret Marut aka B. Traven

I know I was writing stories when I was five.  I don't know what I did before that.  Just loafed I suppose.      --P.G. Wodehouse

Nothing can replace the cut, fit and love that goes into a couture outfit.  It has been made by an artist.  And besides, it mixes very well with the Gap.  --Nan Kempner

2004 was the first full year when the number of babies born to Latina mothers nudged past 50% of the children in California; it reached 51.5 % in 2005.  These newest Californians are the leading edge of a Latino demographic that will remake the state in unknown ways during the coming decades.  --Mike Swift

South America has the highest urbanization level in the world, at over 82%.  While many people around the world think of the continent in terms of its rain forest, pampas and Patagonia, the fact of the matter is that four out of every five people in South America live in a city.  www.globalist.com

It is not known precisely why searching in the databases, known as data mining, raised such a furious legal debate.  But such databases, compiled by American companies and stored in the United States, contain records of the phone calls and e-mail messages of millions of Americans.  --Scott Schane

They  call it the "Gaza Riviera".  Lime-green Hamas banners flutter over Gaza City with a message in English for aid workers and journalists worried about being kidnapped: "No more threat for our foreign visitors and guests."  --Dion Nissenbaum

Circularity has been reduced.  But I don't think that explains the full decline.   Migration patterns do tend to rise and fall with economic activity.   --David Martin

Whether you like it or not, we are all role models.  The only question is, will it be positive or negative?  --Cal Ripken, Jr.

When you sign you name on the dotted line, it's more than just playing the game of baseball.  You've got to be responsible and make decisions and show people how things are supposed to be done.  --Tony Gwynn

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If you get information here, leave it here.   --Sign on Federal Building

The rich often appear caught up in a race to out-consume each other and to differentiate themselves from  the middle class.  --Robert J. Samuelson

It's the paid obituaries that have captured me -- those one-column eulogies often written by relatives and placed in the paper for a fee.  They are sweet -- sometimes a little unpolished -- but almost always from the heart.  They are patches in a quilt of the time and place in which we live.  They are art.  They are poetry.  --Mike Cassidy

People today describe turning on their electronic gadgets before their morning coffee is brewed and keeping them handy until tumbling into bed at night.  --Chris Cobbs

What seems unappealing may be very valuable to you.  You may be avoiding it because to participate will make you uncomfortable.  Remember: Discomfort is a powerful catalyst for change.   --John Epperheimer

Poker is about people.  More than cards and chips, it's about people -- their betting patterns,  their history with you, the things they say and do at the table, maybe even the way they riffle their chips.  --Steve Rosenbloom

If you're watching video, you're probably not working.  --Vimal Solanki

Nearly 1 in 5 students at two Ivy League schools say they have purposely injured themselves by cutting, burning or other methods.  --Lindsey Tanner

Unfortunately, the liberal debate has devolved to why one person has more opportunity for leisure and even nicer things than others do.  A sort of envy rather than hunger more often fuels gripe.   --Victor Davis Hanson

The courts make no distinction between electronic messages and paper messages.  If your organization is involved in a lawsuit, you can take it to the bank that your employees' e-mail messages will be subpoenaed and their history of Internet surfing could be looked at too.  --Nancy Flynn

I think the Dalai Lama would say look within because it's in you, not someone else.  --Maria Shriver

True friends need to learn when to stop blogging and go across campus to help a friend.  --Michael Bugeja

Our kids have absorbed a culture of more, easy, fast and fun.  --David Walsh

My novels are autobiographical.  All the readers want or need to know about me can be found in my books.   --B. Traven

The report shows that children born in the South and Southwest have less of a chance of academic and financial success than do those born in the Northest and North Central States.  --Bob Dart

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Allowing employees to disagree, then resolve differences usually strengthens their relationships in the  long run.  --Cheryl Shavers

The further back you look, the further ahead you can see.  --Winston Churchill

Reflect that 200 years ago, the ancestors of 19 of every 20 people you see today were living at or just above the subsistence level somewhere in the world: grubbers in the soil or perhaps village smiths or  shoemakers.  More people and increased income cause problems of increased scarcity in the short run.  Heightened scarcity causes prices to rise.  The higher prices present opportunity, and prompt investors and entrepreneurs to search for solutions.  Many fail, at cost to themselves.   But in a free society, solutions are eventually found.  And in the long run, the new developments leave us better off than if the problems had not arisen.  That is, prices end up lower than before the scarcity occurred.  The concept of evolution argues that -- in the absence of huge change in the physical world from climate change or planetary collision -- humanity will continue to go forward.  --Julian Simon

Innovation will come from people who have crossed boundaries.  --Diane Kelley

When scarce resources create conflicting demands, the interests of the customer provide the largest space on which to seek common ground.  --Thomas Petzinger

Fewer and fewer people are lifetime employees.  The smart person takes on a series of challenging experiences at different companies and builds a portfolio of skills.   --Al Dunlap

The Internet has somehow turned us all into colossal egomaniacs who believe that each one of us has a supreme and total right to have each whim answered.  --Edward Devine

I believe we are responsible for our own luck.  Luck's not going to feed the bulldog, and I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the federal government -- or for that matter, anyone else -- to solve the talent shortage problems of private enterprise.  --Bob Evans

Luck is the residue of design.  --Branch Rickey

Even in a thriving company, it often takes the eyes of an outsider to spot the obvious and bring business back to the correct path for the long journey ahead.  --Al  Dunlap

You're setting yourself up to fail if you do a fancy business plan for investors before you can do one for yourself.  It doesn't matter how smart  you are.   There will be major flaws in your first business plan.  You need to give yourself time to catch them.   --Norm Brodsky

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No one ever says that their goal in life is to do a mediocre job at a company they hate.  --Carol Goman

If all you think about his how you're likely to fail at a challenge, you probably will.  But if you ask yourself, 'What are the 10 ways I could succeed at this?' your chances of success are much greater.  Just noticing new things keeps you alive.   --Ellen Langer

Many of the middle and higher-level management jobs affected  during company reorganizations are now  being filled internally, opening up positions at the lowest levels of companies.  --Gregory Hayes

When workers are forced to choose between job and family, the job invariably takes a second place.  --Sherri Eng

The Renaissance man of ancient times could do many things,and he didn't live his whole life doing one thing.  He changed as times changed.  Our future will bring many changes, and we'll have to adapt and adjust to keep our heads above water.  One day we'll be computer programmers, the next day we will  be something else.  It could be that your future shining star employee is disguised as an engineer or an auto mechanic or even an out of work actor.  --John McGlinchey

An entrepreneur is constitutionally unemployable.    They're unlikely to know how to do anything except run something.  They don't want to go to work for someone, and they don't want to sit idle.  --Irv Grousbeck

You're really doing it for the psychological experience.  It's the kind of thing where you look back on your life, you hope you made a difference.  --Andy Bechtolsheim

There's a force out there  that wants us to evolve.  To achieve that, you have to put technology into the right space rather than fighting.  --Kamran Elahian

It's time to fire a customer when they cost you more than you gain from them.  --Dennis Conforto

So the real question is, how can I create a life that I will look back on as an incredible shining adventure, and how can the business be a vehicle to help me  accomplish that?   --Lanny Goodman

Call it human capital or intellectual capital or whatever term you choose.  Our people are the best reason to do business with us.  --Jack Stack

A prudent man forseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.   --Proverbs 22:3

Buying behavior is not just about people and income but also about how dissatisfied they are with present alternatives.  --Roger Blackwell

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Every fast growing business, no matter how successful, struggles with cash flow problems.  And every cash flow problem can quickly grow into a life threatening situation, overshadowing any other considerations.  It's a simple yet relentless drill: You need to get more money coming in than is flowing out the door.  To maintain that balance, you do what you have to do.  --Jeffrey Seglin

Employees are willing to take lower paying jobs if what they see in the corporate culture what they are looking for -- a culture that can provide training and advancement.  -- Vincent Alonso

If you make people think they are thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.   --Don Marquis

We may have reached the point where further increases in earnings will have to come from more revenue -- not from more cost cutting.  --Jack West

The criteria to pass a psychological test is basically whether the person is emotionally stable.  This does not mean they're going to make the best salesperson.  --Dave Kurlan

If it's growth you are after, you have to do more than suck up to free agent phenoms who swoosh in, do their spectacular thing and zoom out.  You have to commit  to creating a diverse and capable crew that gets a genuine kick out of what you're there to accomplish.   --Nancy Austin

Intellectual capital will go where it is wanted, and will stay where it is well treated.  It cannot be driven: it can only be attracted.  --Walter Winston

The most powerful motivator is pure, genuine recognition.  This type of recognition is far more powerful than rewarding employees  with money.  --Jon Ferrara

The brain is a though processor providing a unified associative structure encompassing all your digital content.  -- Natrificial Software

There is nothing that can look at my email and tell me what I really need  to know: What's this guy's story?  And what is my history with this person?  It's just the nature of the wired world that email relationships are often terse.  It's a given that there will be detailed, very focused communications for a brief period of time, followed by an abrupt and prolonged silence.  The problem arises when its time to reestablish that relationship.  --David Plotnikoff

Change is a gradual process and change in the workplace, while inevitable, is judiciously political.  Real change only happens from the inside out and is inherently individual.  There is not better way to make changes than to try as best you can on any given day to embody a little bit of change in yourself.  The change requires reflection and a strong personal compass.   --Cheryl Shavers

The only thing I would rather own than Windows is English, or Chinese or Spanish, so I could charge you $249 for the license to speak.  --Scott McNealy

Most companies find that getting new grads up to speed is much quicker and cheaper than retaining old grads.  --Bob Godwin

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If you want more talented employees, an increasing number of whom are women, you have to be able to recruit them.  That  means offering more flexible hours  without assuming that part-timers won't work as hard or will never want to be full-timers again.  --Sue Hutchison

Copyright law allows some public uses, such as by a teacher or a student in a classroom, and does not require permission from the copyright owner for fair-use purposes such as criticism, commentary or parodies.  --Jim Puzzanghera

The judge not only had a strict definition of "Justice", he knew how to use it in a sentence.  --Bob Thaves in Frank and Ernest

There's an assumption among a lot of employers that anyone who wants to work part-time isn't really committed to their career, even when that's most often not the case.  But we are seeing companies being much more transparent about what working part time means -- that there's a specific reason for working part-time and that it will be for a specific period of time.   -- Kara Helander

You made us believe.  You made us proud.  You made us champions.  Thank you coach.  Bill Walsh 1931-2007  -- San Francisco 49ers

Fair-use advocates long have ignored the warnings because they are misleading but they intimidate people who haven't studied the law.  They're based on what the content industry does best which is scare the living daylights out of people.  --Gigi Sohn

We knew this would happen, where nation states and non-traditional terrorist organizations would make use of these tools for electronic war.  --Jim Christy, Department of Defense

If I hadn't become a director I would have been an architect or maybe a painter.  In other words, I think I'm someone who has things to show rather than things to say.  --Michelangelo Antonioni

That raises a troublesome issue for a civil libertarian like me.  Is it just possible that the threat of cameras has helped to clean up San Jose's original downtown crossroads?  --Scott Herhold

We're against cameras period.  You have a right to go about your business without the government monitoring you.  What if cameras were used to see who goes to a gay nightclub, or the political offices of an opponent?  --Mark Schlosberg

The A-heds stopped being funny, and then they disappeared altogether.  The left-hand 'leaders' as we called them, which once offered some of the clearest analysis in the world, became thumpingly ordinary.   And then they disappeared, too -- in one of the series of redesigns that destroyed the look and feel of the old Wall Street Journal without creating a new identity.  --David Ignatius

Before the electrodes were implanted, the man was in what doctors call a "minimally conscious state."  That means he showed only occasional awareness of himself and his environment.  In a coma or vegetative state, by contrast, patients show no outward signs of awareness.   There are no reliable statistics on how many Americans are in a minimally conscious state, but one estimate suggests 112,000 to 280,000.  --Malcolm Ritter

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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.  --Confucius

Sometimes there is a thin line between creative tension and erratics behavior.  Since human beings are immensely complex and adapable, no one can be completely predictable.  --Cheryl Shavers

I look at the lessons adversity can teach.  If I'm failing at something, I'm learning something.  So I focus on how I can take that lesson and apply it so that I don't make the same mistake again.  --Katie Williams

Do you know what real poverty is?   It is never having a big thought or a generous impulse.  --Jerome Fleishman

Being smart can get you pretty far in life, but above average brains can lull you into a false sense of security.  Odd as it may seem, intelligent people are constantly at risk of self-destruction caused  by their own brilliance.  -- Mortimer  Feinberg

American workers can be confident they'll find some job, but they can't be sure how long they'll keep it.  --Michael Phillips

We had a fine work ethic in this country.  It was murdered in the 1980's and 1990's by thousand of layoffs  caused by greedy corporate  raiders piling up debt on companies to make  a quick killing.  Why should anyone give their best effort on the job?  No one cares about the worker anymore.  Growing up in the 1960's, we were taught that giving your best would always ensure employment.   That's baloney.  It's all a matter of random choice whether or not your job continues.  This is why there is no work ethic in this country.   --Anonymous

The worst decision is not making a choice.  It is worse than making the wrong choice.  --Al Dunlap

Tremendous differences in culture, attitudes and customs in different regions of the U.S. make it imperative to indentify the expectations of the community you are considering and what that might mean for your business.  --Jim Schriner

Eventually I got to speak with a live person that sounded like a tape.  --Sal Marino

If you wake up at midnight with a problem, you can email your therapist without waking him or  her up...you might even get a reply by the next morning.   --Shari Cauldron

If  your organization is not changing faster than the world outside is changing,  then the end of your organization is rapidly approaching.  --Don Wainwright

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Every fast growing business, no matter how successful, struggles with cash flow problems.  And every cash flow problem can quickly grow into a life threatening situation, overshadowing any other considerations.  It's a simple yet relentless drill: You need to get more money coming in than is flowing out the door.  To maintain that balance, you do what you have to do.  --Jeffrey Seglin

Employees are willing to take lower paying jobs if what they see in the corporate culture what they are looking for -- a culture that can provide training and advancement.  -- Vincent Alonso

If you make people think they are thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.   --Don Marquis

We may have reached the point where further increases in earnings will have to come from more revenue -- not from more cost cutting.  --Jack West

The criteria to pass a psychological test is basically whether the person is emotionally stable.  This does not mean they're going to make the best salesperson.  --Dave Kurlan

If it's growth you are after, you have to do more than suck up to free agent phenoms who swoosh in, do their spectacular thing and zoom out.  You have to commit  to creating a diverse and capable crew that gets a genuine kick out of what you're there to accomplish.   --Nancy Austin

Intellectual capital will go where it is wanted, and will stay where it is well treated.  It cannot be driven: it can only be attracted.  --Walter Winston

The most powerful motivator is pure, genuine recognition.  This type of recognition is far more powerful than rewarding employees  with money.  --Jon Ferrara

The brain is a though processor providing a unified associative structure encompassing all your digital content.  -- Natrificial Software

There is nothing that can look at my email and tell me what I really need  to know: What's this guy's story?  And what is my history with this person?  It's just the nature of the wired world that email relationships are often terse.  It's a given that there will be detailed, very focused communications for a brief period of time, followed by an abrupt and prolonged silence.  The problem arises when its time to reestablish that relationship.  --David Plotnikoff

Change is a gradual process and change in the workplace, while inevitable, is judiciously political.  Real change only happens from the inside out and is inherently individual.  There is not better way to make changes than to try as best you can on any given day to embody a little bit of change in yourself.  The change requires reflection and a strong personal compass.   --Cheryl Shavers

The only thing I would rather own than Windows is English, or Chinese or Spanish, so I could charge you $249 for the license to speak.  --Scott McNealy

Most companies find that getting new grads up to speed is much quicker and cheaper than retaining old grads.  --Bob Godwin

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At 15% growth, we can develop people fast enough to take advantage of opportunities, and we can develop opportunities fast enough to take care of people.  --Jack Stack

Losses that are generated by avoidable errors can be corrected.  The objective is not to correct them, but to avoid the situations in which they occur.  It takes more resources to redo or correct a transaction than it does to get it right the first time.  --Susan Duran-Dufy

Passion is the one thing you must have to achieve a reliable forecast.  With it, you can hit almost any reasonable target you set.  Without it, your forecast is just an empty prediction that neither you nor anyone else can count on, and that is almost certain to create problems for you down the road.  --Jack Stack

You can offer intellectual content to the job.  A chance for people to grow their intellectual capital.  To work as part of something innovative and nimble.  --Bryan Plug

People with a sense of humor are three times as likely to report top levels of energy as those who don't have a sense of humor.  People with a sense of humor are half as likely to get anxious or frustrated in the face of a problem and are twice as likely to be able to pull themselves out of a bad mood.  --Peter McLaughlin Co.

Even though each generation has more income than its predecessor, each generation wants more than its predecessor.  Let's say you are starting a business and you're struggling.  You think, when it's a bigger business, I'm going to sit back and enjoy it.  But when you get to that stage, you find out that all the other entrepreneurs at that level are working just as hard, living in much bigger houses and taking expensive vacations.  And the result is, you don't feel rich or successful at all.  People always think they are going to get happier as they progress through their careers, but the evidence doesn't bear that out.  --Richard Easterlin

Americans plan so much because they are mistrustful.  You need to trust the future if you want spontaniety.  --Geoffrey Godbey

The big dinosaurs had terrifying power but small brains.  With skin and skulls so thick,they had little need for cunning.  They were slow and stupid, they were probably unaware of the change in footing until they had walked too far into the tar and were sucked into oblivion.  --Jerry Standley

Knowledge workers are much more sensitive to the kudos of their peers than those they receive from management.  --Christopher Meyer

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Leaders are useless if their followers are incompetent or uninterested.  --Harvey Robbins

Most of today's top execs are obsolete.  --Roger Herman

If you don't know where you are going, then any path will take you there.   --Alice in Wonderland

People who just get on in this life  and people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, they make them.  So if it is to be, it's up to me.  --George Bernard Shaw

If you observe a really happy man, you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert.  He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that had rolled under the radiator; striving for it as a goal itself.  He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of each day.  --Beran Wolfe

If you know how, you'll always have a job.  If you know why,  you'll be the boss.  --Anonymous

Modesty is the art of drawing attention to whatever it is you are being humble about.  --Anonymous

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making plans.  --John Lennon

Certainly people who live entirely for the moment haven't got it right.  But those who spend their lives planning their lives don't either.  You end up finding that you have squandered opportunities for really living in order to prepare yourself for living in the future.  --Chaz Csikzdent

Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.  --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning is either a continuous thing or it is nothing.  --Frank Tyger

I don't know of anyone who ever learned anything while their lips were moving.  --Anonymous

The mind longs for what it has missed.  Petronius

People don't argue with their own conclusions.  --Anonymous

Start with a clean slate.  Brush away any mental cobwebs before you meet with your next customer.  When you start mentally with a clean slate, you can become a solution provider, but when your thoughts revolve around you, you become an obstacle to the sale.  --Gerhard Gschwandtner

Put a small mirror on your desk and look into it when you're making telephone calls.  Smile and you will sound better.  --Stephan Schiffman

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The way you cultivate mindfulness is to realize that information about the world around is endlessly interesting, and it looks different from different perspectives.  But many people operate mindlessly, pursuing routines rather than looking for new details around them.  The results can be disastrous.  --Ellen Langer

We've always known that women are the kinder, gentler sex.  This isn't news.  Men may not be tender, but thank goodness for them!  They have built just about everything on the planet from time immemorial, and they undoubtedly have created the modern world.  But it has been the women who have made it civilized.  --Marilyn Vos Savant

As soon as one vendor pays me, I'm probably going to tell customers that all competitive products are junk. --Greg Scott

The industry claims there is a shortage of workers when what they really mean is that there is a shortage of cheap workers, in the form of new college graduates and imported foreign nationals.  It isn't lost on tech workers, meanwhile, that they're in a fundamentally ruthless business and a me-first, entrepreneurial culture.  If loyalty is now a quaint notion, don't blame the workers.  --Norman Matloff

Why should anyone put up with a boss that launches into a tirade, slams the door, yells and screams when things don't go his or her way?  People who behave in this way should not be managers, and no job is important enough to put up with this kind of abuse.  It seems to me that this kind of bad behavior will only get worse if people just take it without complaint.  Maybe that's why there is so much road rage out there.  --Gisela Frehe

Most workers cling to the notion their jobs will offer enough challenge to be interesting, enough comraderie to be nourishing, enough hours to get the work done and enough money to pay the bills.  But how many workers are more alive at the end of the day or during their time off than when they are at work?  Sadly, what some of these workers soon discover is what they do for a living is not necessarily what and who they are.  With midlife comes the realization that there is a larger arena to explore.  Unrealistic goals virtually guarantee failure.  --Cheryl Shavers

Optimists are the ultimate realists.  The reason that optimism makes the difference is that human beings and all our creations are perfectible.  "Perfectibility" does not say "wait until it's perfect".  It says "Give it a try and if it doesn't work right, fix it on the way."  --William Safire

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Occaisonal squabbles among siblings are normal.  I don't trust families that tell me their children always get along.  Some siblings hate each other and will do anything, including destroying the business, to hurt each other.  --Quentin Fleming

No matter the time or place, good manners are cost effective.  They not only increase the quality of life but they also contribute to optimum employee morale and a professional image.  An atmosphere in which people treat each other with consideration is obviously one in which a customer enjoys doing business.  In addition, a company with a well-mannered reputation attracts and keeps good people.  --Gloria Hutter

The happiest people are those that are too busy to notice whether they are or not.  --William Feather

I've asked a few self-proclaimed etiquette experts about the cherry tomato dilemma.  Answers ranged from  "just don't eat the darn thing" to "if you eat it, pop the whole darn thing in your mouth.  If you cut it, you might inadvertently squirt your neighbor."  It may sound like a silly thing to talk about, but manners do count.  Sometimes it is the smallest details that influence the way others see you.  --Jeanne Ricci

Never underestimate the importance of money.   It's how the business people keep score.  --Mark McCormack

Top corporate executives consider poor table manners an immediate turnoff.  Sixty percent of them said that they select only employees with social polish and confidence to represent their company publicly.  --Gloria Hutter

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.  --Leigh Hunt

Please include some small talk -- it helps to break the ice.  Most people are flattered when asked to talk about themselves.  Small talk does not require original or profound conversation.  An exchange of niceties is all that is expected.  Be sure to listen.  --Gloria Hunter

How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.  --Robert Half

It is possible to create an organization in which everyone focuses on the job instead of following a personal agenda.  As a company leader you can create an environment in which helping the company succeed is the best route to personal success.  --Bob Lewis

The great thing about e-mail is you don't  have to  wait for the mailman.  --Anonymous

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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.   --Robert Heinlein

He noticed a stream of men about his age trickling in.  He wondered how their schedules permitted them to arrive so late.  Then it occurred to him: they were retired, and they had no where else to go.  He didn't want to live that life of lost purpose.  --Elaine Pofeldt

The paradox of planning is that it often makes life more stressful, not less.  We plan to make it more likely we'll have the experience we seek but it often gives us more rigid expectations, and the experience often can't live up to them.  --Ellen Weisinger

There is only one problem with saving your dream for someday -- someday will always remain in the future.  --Anonymous

It is so pleasant to come across people who are more stupid than ourselves.  We love them at once for being  so.   --Jerome Jerome

In business, people take different roads to achieve success.  Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.   --Anonymous

I'm certain Jesus loves you, but in your case he's seeing other people.  --Fred Reiss

Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.  --Anonymous

Some folks could use a leave of absence from life.  --Jack D. Deal

No matter what the problem is you need to do three things: find out what really happened, contain the damage and see if you can reap some advantage.  --Mark Stoltz

Serving the Aztec system of tribute and trade, relay runners covering 200 miles in a single day delivered fresh fish from the coast to Moctezuma's table.  --National Geographic

You  have to be willing to learn all over again, to reinvent yourself.  You have to be stupid.  --Christos Cotsakos

Contrary to common management beliefs, not every problem is amenable to coolheaded reason.  When incisive analysis fails to forge a workable plan or grow a company, businesspeople have to travel outside the map lines.  --Nancy Austin

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Occaisonal squabbles among siblings are normal.  I don't trust families that tell me their children always get along.  Some siblings hate each other and will do anything, including destroying the business, to hurt each other.  --Quentin Fleming

No matter the time or place, good manners are cost effective.  They not only increase the quality of life but they also contribute to optimum employee morale and a professional image.  An atmosphere in which people treat each other with consideration is obviously one in which a customer enjoys doing business.  In addition, a company with a well-mannered reputation attracts and keeps good people.  --Gloria Hutter

The happiest people are those that are too busy to notice whether they are or not.  --William Feather

I've asked a few self-proclaimed etiquette experts about the cherry tomato dilemma.  Answers ranged from  "just don't eat the darn thing" to "if you eat it, pop the whole darn thing in your mouth.  If you cut it, you might inadvertently squirt your neighbor."  It may sound like a silly thing to talk about, but manners do count.  Sometimes it is the smallest details that influence the way others see you.  --Jeanne Ricci

Never underestimate the importance of money.   It's how the business people keep score.  --Mark McCormack

Top corporate executives consider poor table manners an immediate turnoff.  Sixty percent of them said that they select only employees with social polish and confidence to represent their company publicly.  --Gloria Hutter

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.  --Leigh Hunt

Please include some small talk -- it helps to break the ice.  Most people are flattered when asked to talk about themselves.  Small talk does not require original or profound conversation.  An exchange of niceties is all that is expected.  Be sure to listen.  --Gloria Hunter

How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.  --Robert Half

It is possible to create an organization in which everyone focuses on the job instead of following a personal agenda.  As a company leader you can create an environment in which helping the company succeed is the best route to personal success.  --Bob Lewis

The great thing about e-mail is you don't  have to  wait for the mailman.  --Anonymous

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Individual freedom has proved to be a powerful, beneficent force.  We are better off because scientists have been free to pursue knowledge, because each individual has been free to try to increase the prosperity of his family and because victims of discrimination have been free to protest and struggle.  --Herbert Stein

It often comes down to a 'He said. She said.'  Employers just don't use the same type of procedures a court of law does, and you can't.  It's a difficult situation employers find themselves in.  --Howard Mintz

Invariably they tell their employers they are leaving to go home.   But very few actually do so.  Women do not want to burn their bridges.  They start their own businesses.  Or they look for jobs where they can have a better balance, or where the opportunities for advancement are better.  And they find them.  --Sheila  Wellington

If you have a rigid, tension-filled job in which you think you lack control, the level of anxiety and depression could increase.  In that case, abandoning the job might be a mental health benefit.  --Peggy Thoits

Short-term thinking limits a company's reach, undermines its stability and frustrates efficiency, while longer-term strategies produce the opposite results.  If the goal is to assure growth and perpetuation, then a longer-term approach achieves the best results.  --John Graham

They have a few goofy items like chile fudge but the core competency is in the salsa edibles.  The question goes begging -- is there enough of a specialty market for chile lovers?  Maybe.  Certainly the holidays should be good for business.  You can give them to your friends that love chiles and to your enemies that don't.    --Jack D. Deal

Less hunting.  More gathering.  --WINFO Online

You do your best work when you're having fun.   --Xerox

"Just teach or tell us something we don't know."  P.Y. Yang to corporate spy Victor Lee.

If you aren't happy with what you've got now, what makes you think you will be happy with more?  --Anonymous

No one agrees with other people's opinions; they merely agree with their own opinions expressed by somebody else.  --Sydney Tremayne

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Sadly, it seems that spending a few minutes of personal time during the workday violates an unwritten law of business etiquette.  Yet we tacitly accept the fact that a large amount of our personal time gets spent on work related activities: time traveling to and fro from work for example.  The question of time spent on a task is not easily resolved in an age when life places so many demands on a person's extremely unlimited time.  But if we begin calculating life's moments as money lost or gained, we have learned nothing from the lessons of the Industrial Revolution's sweatshops.  --Lyon Virostko

People will always ask for reports to support their views.  You have to make sure that what you do benefits the organization, not just the individual.  --Nick Wreden

It pays to stay alive, no matter what it takes.  The longer you last in business, the longer you can expect to last.  And if you last long enough, you have a shot at some real growth and wealth creation.  All you have to do is innovate and execute.  Innovate and execute.   --Nick Sullivan

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.  --Alfred North Whitehead

Recently someone pointed out that cleaning anything makes something else dirty, and yet anything can get dirty without something getting clean.  --Lewis Stulz

Quitters simply give up in the face of adversity.  They abandon their mountain and stop pursuing their real  purpose.  If you're gearing up for the short term burst, you're fooling yourself.  You'll be disappointed and confused.  --Paul Stoltz

Credibility is all about perception -- not necessarily what is real, but what the other party believes is real.  --Greg Scott

The Internet is like Darwinism on steroids.  You evolve or get eliminated.  --Raul Fernandez

Voice mail should be used only to obtain messages from clients when no one is available to answer the phone.  Using voice mail to screen calls and avoid human contact is no way to do business.  Customers want attention.  They want  people to care about them.  --Susie Van Huss

The belief that what matters is what you do, not how much you suffer.  --Frank Furedi

Humans are slow to change.  It took 500,000 years after the invention of tools to control fire.  --Jack D. Deal

The pig is the fastest growing farm animal.  The largest pig on record weighed 2500 pounds. --Charles Cook of Cook's Racing Pigs

Never swat a fly that just landed on a mirror.  --Jack D. Deal

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Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise.  --Gilbert Ortega 

The significant problems we face today can't be solved at the same level of thinking as when we created them.  --Albert Einstein

Ride, eat, sleep, repeat.  Life is good.  --Falcon Designs

Training teaches you how to do something specific and involves the details of a particular problem.  Education imparts knowledge that allows you to think, understand, anticipate and interpret.  With education, you can operate within the context of a problem, not just the details.  Knowledge of fundamental and underlying principles and methods is more important than technology.  --Chuck Wright

Focus.  Don't try to be all things to all people.  Pick out what you want to be the best at and do that.  You'll  bring a lot of other opportunities to yourself by the fact that you're very good at something.   --David Dornan

The less you know about a job, the easier it appears.   --Shull's Corollary

The journey is its own reward.  --Jack D. Deal

Familiarity breeds lack of attention.  --Anonymous

It is the human spirit that makes the difference between successful and failing firms, not a procedure or a process.  When people begin to realize that, the places they go and the meetings they have will change forever.   Until then, they will just be events.  --Bob Root

When your customer has a problem, each contact costs you a level of satisfaction.  When customers ping pong while trying to resolve a problem, each back and forth reduces customer satisfaction by up to 10%.  --Hepworth and Company

86% of the message a customer gets over the phone is from tone of voice.  Poor service is the number one reason why American companies lose business.  --International Customer Service Association

You can't do everything, but don't ignore the tasks you don't like.  Delegate them to a partner, associate, or subordinate, but remember to build in some checkpoints for final review.  As the owner, you're still ultimately responsible for everything your company does --or doesn't -- do.  --Sandy Weinberg

What do you do when you are one big, dopey company with no new ideas?  Merge with another, big dopey company with no ideas.   Then you have one really big,  really dopey company with no new ideas.  --Tom Peters

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Employers have an interest in keeping their employees in the dark.   --Hal Lancaster

We who study management look particularly for populations in which change is rampant or people are trying to adjust to a more demanding context.  That describes Silicon Valley...  --William Sahlman

We think better on our feet than in our seats.  Move your body throughout the day: sit, stand, squat, walk.  Don't be a desk potato at work and a 'couch potato' at home.   Challenge your body and your mind. -- Rajendra Paul

Want to show off?  Walk into a room and say you're a happy person.   Better yet, announce that you've been happily married for 25 years.   Satisfaction and domestic contentment are the status symbols of the future.   -- Watts Wacker

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.  --Carl Sandberg

The fact that individuals share so few common associations for a given word, image or idea means that we are all magically and eerily different from each other.  In other words, every human being is far more individual and unique than has hitherto been surmised.  You who are now reading this sentence contain, in  your brain, trillions of associations shared by one else, past, present or future.  --Tony Buzan

We don't want people who are satisfied with the way things are.  We want people who are curious, impatient, and who are constantly trying to buck the trend of perceived wisdom.  --C.K. Prahalad

It appears that six or seven is the largest number of relationships that one person can deal with continuously.  We need the hierarchy, with its well-defined roles and patterns of behavior, to allow large numbers of people to work together without overload.   --Edward Tuck

The pursuit of money makes sense if it's one of many things -- health, family, offering service to the community, etc., -- in one's life.  There's no need to repress money and thinking about money.  On the other hand, money is one of the reasons people are dislocated from the things that matter in life.  --Eric Tyson

It's troubling how the average American doesn't realize how close they are to an emotional collapse.  You can't pursue the fast life forever.  --Eric Tyson

For many who are hitting their 40's and 50's starting a business has special appeal.   The chance to control and to own something can be intoxicating.  These men and women have climbed the corporate ladder and found that they did not like  what they saw when they got there, or discovered that that they were only halfway to the top and were not going to go any farther.  Whatever the reason they all have asked themselves, "Is this how I want to spend the next 20 years of my working life?"  --Cheryl Shavers

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In business as in life, your chances of being run over are doubled if you stay in the middle of the road.  --Anonymous

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.  --Hilliard

Our stunning growth of girth is part of a culture of self-indulgence: we want it  now; and we aren't willing to pay for the adverse consequences.   --Michael Fumento

Let us be thankful for the fools.   But for them the rest of us would not succeed.   --Mark Twain

I need no license or export permission to broadcast any type of  information across global, political, organizational or psychological boundaries.  As a result, social change is occurring faster, and organizations are trying desperately to catch up.  --Regis McKenna

All these wires are like this giant plant system, this extension of human consciousness and just the way genes spread from person to person through sexual contact, memes --ideas spread back and forth through media contact.  Like a Rodney King tape is this virus that spread around and changes the way we think... --Douglas Rushkoff

Go ahead.  Smoke in the office.  --Alpha Processors

Forget the baffling complexities of artificial intelligence -- why couldn't  robots replace the surly kids down at Burger King?  Forget the economic incentives behind planned obsolescence --why couldn't the engineering department at Fruit of the Loom develop everlasting undies?  --David Futrelle

We can't afford to dismiss history so easily.   For we live in it -- and despite the best efforts  of generations of futurist ideologues, it shows no signs of becoming more orderly anytime soon.   We have to live with uncertainty,  that's the cost of being alive.   --David Futrelle

He who stops being better stops being good.   --Aristotle

The low bidder is one who wonders what he left out.  --Anonymous

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It's far more difficult solving the human problem than it is the technical problem.  --Philip Rugani

Decision is  a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.  --Gordon Graham

The successful, thriving giants of the world are always the ones that change before the industry, or before their competitors force them to change.  That's challenging, because it's not difficult to explain the need for change to people when there's a problem, but getting people to change when things are going well is very challenging.  --John Chambers

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.  --George Bernard Shaw

Ever notice how the empty can makes the most noise?   --Anonymous

When I'm working I have nothing to worry about.  Huang Bohan, 105

Lincoln did not apologize for telling everybody, everyday why the country couldn't be divided.  --Mike Edl

All of us have to live more than one life.  Scultors.  Poets.  We all have to live two or three lives at the very least.  When I was young my family thought I was going to waste my life and be a pitcher.  Later on they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet.  They were right.  --Carl Sandburg

The keys to the castle in a knowledge-based society are education.  It's going to determine the haves and have-nots, and the gap between haves and have-nots ends up destroying society instead of really continuing to build it.  People should view education differently.  It's not a chore; it's not something you get behind you so you can get on with life.   --Joe Costello

Managerial workers want promotions most of all, while wage earners generally produce best for the promise of more money.  Thus piecework can be more attractive for them than hourly wages.  Younger workers are more likely to crave training and visibility; more established workers desire autonomy and freedom.  --Edward Lazear

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.  --Thomas Jefferson

In visiting franchises of a particular company,  one should observe those owners who do very well and  those who do very badly, and then compare yourself with them.  If you're like those who are not doing very well, you probably won't do very well either.  --Howard  Bassuk

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.  --Frank Gaines

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People who wait for all the conditions to be perfect before acting, never act.  --Anonymous

Go to the wall with growth.  If you ain't the lead dog, your scenery never changes...I think it would be much more fun to sit in a rocking chair laughing about what we did than to complain about what we didn't do...You attract your best people when you are in hypergrowth.  If you slow down, those people who only want to be number one will go what they do someplace else. --Richard Heckmann

After a day of cold calling, any business person could use a little warmth.  --Radisson

Dysfunctional -- or literally, functioning abnormally -- has become today's all-purpose, highfalutin' synonym for bad.  Once used primarily to modify the word "families", dysfunctional is now recklessly applied to corporations, sports teams, pets, countries, romances, mutual funds and even the Earth itself.  --Cynthia Crossen

It's better to aim for the moon and miss by an inch or two than aim for the gutter and score a direct hit.  --Anonymous

Unless you have clear writers and thinkers on both ends, solving problems by e-mail can be many times more expensive than a phone call.  --Eamonn Sullivan

Young execs in fast-changing high-tech companies,especially rely on intuition, not planning, to make decisions. --Charles Sweet

Earthquakes get all the publicity but termites do all the damage.  --Zig Ziglar

There is an excess global capacity in almost every industry.  --Jack Welch

We are sensitive to  the fact that employees have needs in life situations that they bring to work, and  we would be naive to think they don't spend work time trying to find a solution.   --Denise Chichon

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and to ask a few questions.  --Peter Drucker

Most people...don't like to think.   They never have thought through a whole problem...because they never approached it in the right manner.  --James McKinsey

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Never hire an employee that was referred by a pawn shop.  --Jack D. Deal

We are not saved by good works but for good works.  --Kansas church sign

The exquisite paradoxes of entrepreneurialism -- building while battling, creating while conniving.  --Thomas Petzinger

If we Americans are not in the process of becoming, not on the cutting edge, we  somehow see ourselves as having failed.   --Anonymous

At my local supermarket I see friends and neighbors and clerks who recognize me.   So what if I could save time by ordering bananas online?  I happily go to the supermarket every day because it's a break from staring at a computer screen.   Wake up and smell the chicken wings!  --Greg Hartmann

She removed the names of the department contact people from the company web site, which was operating as a dinner menu for the  headhunters -- here's who we've got, take your pick.  --Po Bronson

Questioning builds a way.   --Martin Heidegger

Your kid may be an honors student but you are still an idiot.  --Bumper Sticker

People -- although some may wish otherwise -- don't have an algorithmic purpose.  A sane person is a huge assemblage of conflicting/cooperating subprocesses rumbling along in some kind of dynamic equilibrium.  -- Vernor Vinge

You work 20 years or more, gain respect and prestige in your profession, and then this new media comes along and all of that is for naught, because your voice is worth no more or less than that of a lawyer, or a student or a database developer.  --Lizard

Even though we cannot see it -- smell is definitely a part of image.   --Jack D. Deal

72oz steak free if you eat it in one hour.  --Sign outside a Missouri restaurant

If we weren't supposed to animals, why are they made of meat?  --Bumper sticker

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When the well's dry, we all know the value of water.   --Ben Franklin

Negotiating is about creating value, not dividing wealth.  --David Ghitelman

Much of the time going through life is like going through the airport steering a loaded luggage cart with one bad wheel.  Sometimes you feel ridiculous, sometimes you actually look ridiculous, and sometimes all  you can do is try to push it in generally the right direction.  --Marilyn Vos Savant

How hard to you have to work to pretend you are happy?   --Deloitte & Touche

The old economy centered on big manufacturers surrounded by small, local service businesses -- giant  automakers and mom-and-pop dealerships and repair shops.  In the emerging economy, it's just the reverse.  At the core will be big knowledge brokers drawing on global pools of information and insight.  They'll be surrounded by small firms producing highly specialized goods, components and services -- which can be assembled or packaged practically anywhere.   --Robert Reich

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth that humble reasoning of a single individual.   --Galileo

If your business isn't moving fast enough consider the turtle.  It can't move at all if it doesn't stick its neck out.  --Anonymous

Many good job candidates may look elsewhere if your hiring process consumes too much of their day, especially if they are currently employed.  This message also tells them the business cannot make day-to-day decisions easily, and if they are offered a position the many levels of bureaucracy may hinder their success should they accept the position.  --Byrne and Castellano

The big difference between marketing to small businesses and big corporations is that you don't have to deal with layers of buffers and sometimes collective decision-making you encounter in corporate America.  --Herman Mehling

People who think eating at their desk makes them more productive are kidding themselves because a break generates energy.  --Jeffrey Mayer

You don't usually change people and very rarely organizations but you can move from organization to organization and within an organization to tremendous effect, if you just see where you are headed.  --Nella Barkely

Keep it loose and easy.  Hire people who are self-managing, motivated and don't require someone constantly looking over their shoulder.  Hold a meeting once a week with the entire staff and hand out assignments and deadlines and let them work.  Allow them to come and go as they please -- don't watch the clock.  Tell people they are responsible for making up any time they miss, and loosely monitor it.   If people call in and say they will miss work,  don't make it necessary for them to give a reason for not coming in.  If you find people trying to abuse the system, have a meeting and tell them that if the abuse continues you will end the program.  You'd be surprised how much peer pressure can keep people on the straight and narrow.   --Brett Arquette

An apt work to describe the impact of today's consultants is 'clout' and the major reason for that is accountability.   No one wants to stop at strategy.  The new consulting model is to develop a plan, implement ilt and stick around to ensure it works.   --Christine Ross

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A family style restaurant: you know what that means.    There's an argument going on at every table.  --George Carlin

Leads don't generate sales, customers do.  Instead of concentrating on who you can call, shift your focus to who's likely to buy.  Check your criteria for qualifying prospects and make sure the people you call have the money, the need and the authority to buy.  Aim for quality more than quantity in your prospects.  --Selling Ideas

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else, but what you are will be yours forever.  --Henry Van Dyke

Sometimes it takes a man severely disabled by a stroke to truly appreciate a morning walk.  --Jack D. Deal

Yes, I hang up on telemarketers.  But I do it as nicely as possible.   --Lana Sanderson

We're interested in originality, not origin.   --Pitney Bowes

People who will lie for you, will lie to you.  --Anonymous

Once upon a time my opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.  --Herbert Hoover

Building your sales success -- like building cars -- calls for critically looking at the stages of the process, asking the tough questions and challenging any 'feelgood' assumptions you have been harboring.  Measure, improve, measure some more, improve some more.  Your kids do it in school every week.  It needs to be done on our auto assembly line.  And in your business.  Then ---Vrooom  -- things can really take off.   -- --Ken Wax

Use your good judgement in all situations.   There will be no other rules.  -- Nordstrom

The simplest method to help prospects see the benefits of your product or service is to use the following 'transition phrases' in your presentation: allowing you to, providing you with, enabling you to and therefore you will be able to.  --Adrian Miller

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The best executive is one who has enough sense to pick good people to do what he wants done and enough self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.  --Theodore Roosevelt

When motivating employees, the first thing one has to do is create top incentive.  If it doesn't have at least a $50 perceived value, then it will have no value in motivating anyone.  --Brit Breemer

Give responsibility for the results.  Managers frequently assign a task to someone without giving up responsibility for the results.  This allows the manager to criticize the results.  Teach your people how to do the job, assign the task giving clear instructions and then leave the employee to do the job.  --George Whalin

Recruit those who will fit in with your group and culture.  If they look like they were weaned on a pickle in the interview, what will they look like after they are hired?  --William Blades

The majority of employees leave because they were not enjoying themselves, they felt that management did not care about them and gthe organization's vision and goals were not shared.   It isn't just about money for labor.   --William Blades

Most executives hire on the basis of urgent need.  They read resumes and  interview candidates with eyes and ears of hope.  They don't find out the pattern of that person's motivations.  And when they don't, they pay a high price for it down the road.  --Stephen Covey

People usually fall into one of three categories when it comes to change.  They either thrive on it, hate it or aren't sure how to react.  --Nancy Austin

Start with the person's early life, and ask him or her, "What is it you did very well and that you loved doing?"   Also ask, " What made you feel good about yourself?"  You will begin to see the patterns that persist over time.  --Stehen Covey

When a consumer complains, consider getting down on your hands and knees to offer profuse gratitude because that person has just provided you with priceless advice -- free of charge.  --Oren Harari

Setting  performance standards stupidly high so that they cannot be met legimately is one common way that company policy practically demands unethical conduct.  James Krohe

Perhaps we have created work environments to encourage our employees to work against each other rather than together, and that each is fearful that his or her days are numbered should a 'heavy hitter' join the company.  --Anne Byrne

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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory or defeat.  -- Theodore Roosevelt

I think the leader is the lead dog on the dogsled.  Not the guy on the back with the whip. -- John Chambers

Whether you're facing new opportunities or unexpected problems, the trick is to get the right people to address them, do something that has never been done before, and do it quicker than anyone else.  -- Dr. Tom McDonald

We tend to make bad rules not when we're attacking problems but when we are avoiding them.  We fall into the trap of looking for shortcuts and easy answers.  So one bad customer drives off without paying his bill, and we put restrictions  on all our good customers.  Or one employee uses poor judgment in issuing credit, and we tie the hands of all  those whose judgment is perfectly sound.  --N.  Brodsky

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself  immune to business.   -- Anonymous

The event driven company constantly reorganizes itself around fresh opportunities.  The only way to identify and exploit these opportunities is through and even driven information architecture that instantaneously gathers and distributes news to users in all parts and levels.  --Vivek Ranadive

Bankers like to see someone come in who's prepared, knows how much money she needs, what she needs it for and how she'll  pay it back. --Sonia Barbara

Every time you think you weaken the nation.   --Moe talking to Curly of the Three Stooges

A human society operates through the expression of requests and promises.  --Fernando Flores

I love to tell people the Unabomber is living proof that going to Harvard is no longer a guarantee.  --Watts Wacker

I learned in the Marines that the price for being competitively wrong is, you're dead.  -- Jeff Papows

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the works of  Shakespeare; now,  thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.  --Robert Wilensky

If you don't stay aggressive, your competition will not only take your accounts, but also your employees.  --Jack Matthews

A simple job for simple people.  Curly of the Three Stooges

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There's a fine line between knowing what you want, and getting it.   --Fineline Screenprinting

It is fate, destiny, nemesis.  Perhaps the dawning of knowledge, the coming of sin.  Or more prosaically, the catastrophe that awaits everyone from a single false move, wrong turn, fatal encounter.  Every life has such a moment.  What distinguishes us is whether -- and how -- we ever come back.  -- Charles Krauthammer

The fact is that all innovation isn't necessarily positive.  States can hedge against inefficiencies by adopting a wide range of "bridging" mechanisms that foster collaboration among consumers and producers by conducting statewide planning that connects R&D spending to pressing state needs in education, health care and other fields.   --Doug Henton

Don't search for Truth, simply stop having opinions.  --Zen Koan

Through a complicated computer analysis, researchers from the University of North Carolina and the University of Oregon were able to recreate the ancient protein as it existed 450 million years ago in a jawed, ocean-dwelling creature.  From there, they recreated the protein's progression into its modern form in human beings, finding forks in the evolutionary road along the way that could have led to a different destiny.    -- www.mercurynews.com

Wary of exposing China's flaws to the news media's glare before next year's Olympic Games, authorities are cracking down on groups that help AIDS patients and orphans, closing their offices and banning meetings and gatherings.  --Tim Johnson

Counselors tell students that if your grades are not good enough for college, go to vocational school.  It's disappointing because I don't get the highly intelligent individuals that can understand electrical flow and automobile diagnostics well enough to get out there and make the big money.  Out of 30, maybe one will do really well and the others will be more mechanics and not technicians.  --Dean Ulrich

"Kindly Control Yourself".   --sign in a bar

As difficult as habit changes may be, they are achievable.  Accept that, though most habits are not intended to annoy the partner, your mate's irritation is a sufficient incentive for change.  --Offra Gerstein

"The problem drinker is one who never buys".  --sign in a bar

The remarkable thing about us isn't our supremacy over computers.  It's our interaction with them.  Yes, chess programs have been getting smarter.  But they didn't do that on their own.  Humans design the hardware and write the code.  Grandmasters test and refine it.  The machines get smarter because the code gets subtler because the programmers get wiser.  --William Saletan

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