"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."

--Herbert B. Swope

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Bayard_Swope

"Selling stuff is easy. All you gotta do is give away stuff that makes people happy …and then sell stuff that makes ‘em even happier."

-- Frank Kern

"Negative criticism is easy because it is always possible to find fault with anything if one looks hard enough. It is quite easy to concentrate on the faults and ignore what is worthwhile. But the main and overriding attraction of criticism is that it at once makes the critic superior to what he is criticizing."

--Edward de Bono (http://www.debonothinking.com/)

"We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place."

--Edward De Bono

Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American… and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year—1956…But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game.

--John Eliot, PhD (The Maverick Mindset and Overachiever)

"As soon as we concern ourselves with the 'good' and 'bad' of our fellows, we create an opening in our hearts for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats us." -- Morihei Ueshiba

(today's quote is dedicated to Wicke Chandler, who lost his life in a tragic accident yesterday)

"There are three kinds of people. One kind is the dumb ones who don't learn. The smart ones who learn from their own mistakes. Very smart ones. But then there are the wise ones, the ones who learn from other people's mistakes."
-- not sure