Personal

“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”

Stacey Charter

Customer Service

“To be the best place to buy you must be the best place to work. Treat your employees the way you want your customers to be treated, maybe even better.”

–Shep Hyken, customer service expert

Entrepreneurship

“The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that’s how long it’s going to take, guys.

— Seth Godin, author, entrepreneur, marketer, and public speaker

Education

“Often, education is not about you becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.”

— Heath Buckmaster

Jokes

Son: “Dad, when will I be old enough so I don’t have to ask mom for her permission to go out?”

Dad: “Son, even I haven’t grown old enough to go out without her permission!”

Financial Sustainability

Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like.”

– Will Rogers

Financial Sustainability

“How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.”

– Robert G. Allen

Education

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”

— Albert Einstein

Financial Sustainability

“Financial peace isn’t the acquisition of stuff. It’s learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can’t win until you do this.”

– Dave Ramsey

Jokes

Horseback-riding stable.

Mom: Those horses are awfully big for my daughter.

Me: Our horses are very sweet …

Mom: Don’t you have something smaller? What about that one over there? It’s the perfect size for her!

Me: Um … that’s a goat.