Archive for June, 2007
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
You are an Eagle, You Belong to the Sky
“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.†Alan Cohen
A naturalist was visiting [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Principles of Good Business by Tom Fairbanks
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
The Modern Little Red Hen
“Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.†Milton Friedman
A modern day little red hen may not sound like or appear to be a quotable authority on economics but then some authorities aren’t worth quoting….
About a year [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Principles of Good Business by Tom Fairbanks
Saturday, June 16th, 2007
The Mad Butcher - An Example of Enthusiasm
“In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.†Henry Ward Beecher
When Allan Bellamy returned home from the Korean War, his mother invited him to join her in a “Mom & Pop†grocery store. Allan says that it was so small that when you [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Doing Good Business by Tom Fairbanks
Saturday, June 9th, 2007
Kicking the Cat
“For every force, there is a counter force. For every negative there is a positive. For every action there is a reaction. For every cause there is an effect.†Grace Speare
Zig Ziglar provides us with a good example in the following story: Mr. B was not satisfied with the way things were going in his [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Principles of Good Business by Tom Fairbanks
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007
Wanna Borrow A Jack?
One day a man goes to visit his lawyer friend for advice.
“I’m in real trouble” he says. “My neighbors across the road are going on vacation for a month; and instead of boarding their dogs they are going to keep them locked up and a woman is coming to feed them, if she doesn’t forget. [...]
