“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”
— Pearl Buck
Happiness
July 25, 2017 by
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”
Marcel Pagnol
Financial Sustainability
July 24, 2017 by
Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like.
– Will Rogers
Jokes
July 23, 2017 by
Teacher: “If I gave you 2 cats and another 2 cats and another 2, how many would you have?”
Johnny: “Seven.”
Teacher: “No, listen carefully… If I gave you two cats, and another two cats and another two, how many would you have?”
Johnny: “Seven.”
Teacher: “Let me put it to you differently. If I gave you two apples, and another two apples and another two, how many would you have?”
Johnny: “Six.”
Teacher: “Good. Now if I gave you two cats, and another two cats and another two, how many would you have?”
Johnny: “Seven!”
Teacher: “Johnny, where in the heck do you get seven from?!”
Johnny: “Because I’ve already got a freaking cat!”
Relationship
July 22, 2017 by
“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.’
If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.”
Chinese Proverb
Entrepreneurship
July 21, 2017 by
“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea”
Larry Page, Co-Founder of Google from a 2001 BusinessWeek article.
Jokes
July 20, 2017 by
Soderling, the star college halfback, was taking a math exam.
The coach desperately needed him to play in the college game on Saturday, so the professor agreed to give him an oral exam.
“All right,” said the prof. “How many degrees are there in a circle?”
“Uh, depends,” said the boy. “How big is that there circle?”
Financial Sustainability
July 18, 2017 by
I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.
– Warren Buffett
Happiness
July 17, 2017 by
“Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.”
― Unknown
“Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”
― Napoleon Hill