“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” – Khalil Gibran
“It is the ability to choose which makes us human.” – Madeleine L’Engle
“Life is a sum of all your choices.” – Albert Camus, Author, Philosopher, Nobel Prize Winner
“The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.” – George Eliot
“The smartest librarian in the world still makes less than the average investment banker.” – Paraphrased from Ben Stein interview
“If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Theologian and significant participant in the resistance against Hitler and Nazism
“Opportunity…ours to seize…ours to live…and ours to defend. Or otherwise – ultimately – ours to lose.” – Roberto Goizueta
“Drucker said: ‘If you weren’t already in this business, would you enter it today? And if not, what are you going to do about it?’ Simple right? But incredibly powerful.” – Jack Welch
“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks?” – Warren Buffett
“Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.” – Peter Drucker
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” – Jesus Christ
Doing good to others is not a duty, it is a joy, for it increases our own health and happiness.” – Zoroaster
“Everyone has a purpose in life…a unique or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.” – Deepak Chopra
“There is always a better way.” – Thomas Alva Edison
“Make yourself necessary to somebody.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There are at least five sets of goals, which we may call basic needs. These are briefly physiological, safety, love, ‘esteem, and self-actualization. In addition, we are motivated by the desire to achieve or maintain the various conditions upon which these basic satisfactions rest and by certain more intellectual desires.” – Abraham Maslow
“Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind…what we sow is what we reap. And when we choose actions that bring happiness and success to others, the fruit of our karma is happiness and success.” – Deepak Chopra
“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.” – Steve Jobs
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
“The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.” – Peter Drucker