Financial Sustainability

“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Leadership

“Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers look for influence and that can be obtained from self-leaders.”

Israelmore Ayivor

Education

“I ended up dropping out of high school. I’m a high school dropout, which I’m not proud to say, … I had some teachers that I still think of fondly and were amazing to me. But I had other teachers who said, ‘You know what? This dream of yours is a hobby. When are you going to give it up?’ I had teachers who I could tell didn’t want to be there. And I just couldn’t get inspired by someone who didn’t want to be there.”

— Hilary Swank

Communication

“Never take a person’s dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you.”

Fran Barron, Pioneer in Psychology

Character

“You are only as Beautiful
as your Last Action.”

~ Stephen Richards

Entrepreneurship

“Don’t ask people for directions when they’ve never been where you are going.”

— Anon

Happiness

“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”

Aristotle (384-322BC)

Integrity

“The reputation of a thousand years may be undermined by the conduct of one hour.”

– Japanese Proverb

Customer Service

“Profit in business comes from repeat customers; customers that boast about your product and service, and that bring friends with them.”

— W. Edwards Deming

Happiness

“Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish but with making the healthy choice !”

Gabriella Kortsch