Austin Business

Leadership

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What is Necessary

“Necessary is an interpretation, not a fact.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

Looking forward

"The day when our memories become more important than our dreams is the day when our organization begins to suffer from our leadership." --- Dr. Michael Hammer, author and organizational coach, President of Hammer and Company, speaking at the Air National Guard Senior Leadership Conference, December 11, 2006

Taxes

A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well
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Playing Big

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves,
“Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?”
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.

You playing small does not serve the World.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We were born to manifest the glory of God that is in us.
It’s not just within some of us; it’s in everyone.
When we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give to other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others”

Marianne Williamson

Attitude

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.  Attitude, to me, is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.  It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.  It will make or break a company… a church… a home.  The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.  We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact people will act a certain way.  We cannot change the inevitable.  The only think we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude… I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.  As so it is with you… we are in charge of our attitudes.”

Charles Swindoll

Give the world the best you've got

"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, People may Accuse you of Selfish, Ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be Honest and Frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway."

Mother Teresa

Hard Work

Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done. -- James J. Ling

The Cowboy Way

“Blame nobody, expect nothing, do something.” “Losers assemble in little groups and bitch about the coaches and the system and other players in other little groups. Winners assemble as a team.” “Losing may take a little from your credibility, but quitting will destroy it.” “There are many exit doors in pro football. Don’t take them.” “Don’t confuse routine with commitment.”

Bill Parcells

The Purpose of Life

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson