Wisdom Nuggets

1. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream." -- Mark Twain, American humorist, writer and lecturer, 1835-1910
2. The purpose of a business is to create and keep customers - Theodore Levitt
3. “Whatever advice you give, be brief.”
4. If we find a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone” - Tom Peters
6. "If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse." –Anonymous
7. "The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us." – Anonymous
8. The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there. --Vince Lombardi
9. Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
   - Mark Twain
10. It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business - Gertrude Stein
11. Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map - Wayne Calloway
12. You have to learn to treat people as a resource......you have to ask not what do they cost, but what is the yield, what can they produce? - Peter F. Drucker
13. A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one - Henry Ford