Here are 13 quotes to pick you up this summer, if the excessive heat has been slowing you down.
- “If you want to make it happen, just go out and do it.” Gabriel Draven
- “Small steps daily will take you further ahead of people with lofty goals who do nothing.” Chris Widener
- “Have a strategy on how you do things [and] execute the strategy with passion.” Purdy Crawford
- “The loss of a client is not necessarily a negative. New business opportunities constantly arise and the loss of a client may in fact allow you to accept new business.” Oliver Campbell
- “When you’re starting off, it takes ten times more energy than you thought.” Maria Nemeth
- “There is no way it is, there is only the way you say it is. The universe hasn’t made up its mind about you. It only knows what you show it today. You are the Inventor; your life is the invention. You get to make it up, so make it up good.” Gail Blanke
- “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting to get a different result.” Popularly attributed to Albert Einstein & Benjamin Franklin
- “You cannot carry the requirements of a prior position into a new one without first assessing the new situation and its needs. You can bring some things with you if they fit the new framework; the rest you must toss aside.” John Gardner
- “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Meade
- “For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you might need them tomorrow? And tomorrow, what shall tomorrow bring to the over-prudent dog burying bones in the trackless sand as he follows the pilgrims to the holy city?” Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
- “Cultures are different and there are no cookbook solutions for working together in groups. People are individually very different, and to be a good leader you must spend time observing and talking to those you work with.” Simon Grant
- “As a manager it is extremely important to work hard at uncovering the facts involved in whatever the problem or situation he [or she] faces, and based on those facts, to make the appropriate decision. One must draw a balance, however, between fact-finding and decision-making.” John Gardner
- “People work for YOU to pay for other parts of their lives.” Arunas Chesonis
