Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Saturday, September 11, 2010
jack welch
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Be candid with everyone.
Change before you have to.
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.
The team with the best players wins.
Be candid with everyone.
Change before you have to.
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.
The team with the best players wins.
Friday, September 10, 2010
orville wright
A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.
We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.
With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.
We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.
With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
thomas a. edison
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
I start where the last man left off.
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
There is no substitute for hard work.
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
There's a way to do it better - find it.
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
What you are will show in what you do.
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
I start where the last man left off.
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
There is no substitute for hard work.
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
There's a way to do it better - find it.
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
What you are will show in what you do.
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
ina's kitchen essentials
Kitchen Essentials
INA GARTEN, cookbook author
A GOOD SET OF SHARP KNIVES by Wüsthof, including a chef's knife, a paring knife, a slicing knife, and a bread knife
ALL-CLAD POTS: small and large sauté pans, small and large lidded pots, and a large stockpot
ONE LARGE ALL-CLAD ROASTING PAN. You can make something small in a big one, but you can't make something big in a small one.
One medium and one large LE CREUSET ROUND DUTCH OVEN
I cannot imagine not having my KITCHENAID MIXER K45
Ditto my CUISINART PRO CUSTOM 11 FOOD PROCESSOR, with its slightly bigger bowl
A set of STAINLESS-STEEL MIXING BOWLS (try a restaurant supply house). I also have a set of 10 clear glass bowls that you can get at Williams-Sonoma for about $38 — the best value in the world.
On the counter, I have a big pot of WOODEN SPOONS AND RUBBER SPATULAS
I have another pot with WHISKS AND MEASURING SPOONS. All available from a restaurant supply place — they shouldn't be fancy.
A CHEF'S CHOICE ELECTRIC KNIFE SHARPENER
A BOOS BUTCHER BLOCK CUTTING BOARD
A MEAT THERMOMETER
For potholders, I use BLACK OVEN MITTS
A stack of HALF SHEET PANS. They're about 13" x 18" each with a one-inch rim. I use them for roasting vegetables, baking cookies and brownies, and lots of other tasks.
INA GARTEN, cookbook author
A GOOD SET OF SHARP KNIVES by Wüsthof, including a chef's knife, a paring knife, a slicing knife, and a bread knife
ALL-CLAD POTS: small and large sauté pans, small and large lidded pots, and a large stockpot
ONE LARGE ALL-CLAD ROASTING PAN. You can make something small in a big one, but you can't make something big in a small one.
One medium and one large LE CREUSET ROUND DUTCH OVEN
I cannot imagine not having my KITCHENAID MIXER K45
Ditto my CUISINART PRO CUSTOM 11 FOOD PROCESSOR, with its slightly bigger bowl
A set of STAINLESS-STEEL MIXING BOWLS (try a restaurant supply house). I also have a set of 10 clear glass bowls that you can get at Williams-Sonoma for about $38 — the best value in the world.
On the counter, I have a big pot of WOODEN SPOONS AND RUBBER SPATULAS
I have another pot with WHISKS AND MEASURING SPOONS. All available from a restaurant supply place — they shouldn't be fancy.
A CHEF'S CHOICE ELECTRIC KNIFE SHARPENER
A BOOS BUTCHER BLOCK CUTTING BOARD
A MEAT THERMOMETER
For potholders, I use BLACK OVEN MITTS
A stack of HALF SHEET PANS. They're about 13" x 18" each with a one-inch rim. I use them for roasting vegetables, baking cookies and brownies, and lots of other tasks.
a word of advice to the wives of men
"You have it within your power to send your husband away to his work or his business or his profession each day with a feeling of Self-confidence that will carry him successfully over the rough spots of the day and bring him home again, at night, smiling and happy....
"No one can foretell the possibilities of achievement available to the man whose wife stands at his back and urges him on to bigger and better endeavor, for it is a well-known fact that a woman can arouse a man so that he will perform almost superhuman feats. It is your right and your duty to encourage your husband and urge him on in worthy undertakings until he shall have found his place in the world. You can induce him to put forth greater effort than can any other person in the world. Make him believe that nothing within reason is beyond his power of achievement and you will have rendered him a service that will go a long way toward helping him win in the battle of life."
~ Napoleon Hill ~
The Law of Success
"No one can foretell the possibilities of achievement available to the man whose wife stands at his back and urges him on to bigger and better endeavor, for it is a well-known fact that a woman can arouse a man so that he will perform almost superhuman feats. It is your right and your duty to encourage your husband and urge him on in worthy undertakings until he shall have found his place in the world. You can induce him to put forth greater effort than can any other person in the world. Make him believe that nothing within reason is beyond his power of achievement and you will have rendered him a service that will go a long way toward helping him win in the battle of life."
~ Napoleon Hill ~
The Law of Success
thoughts are things
"I hold it true that thoughts are things;
They're endowed with bodies and breath and wings;
And that we send them forth to fill
The world with good results or ill.
That which we call our secret thought
Speeds forth to earth's remotest spot,
Leaving its blessings or its woes,
Like tracks behind it as it goes.
We build our future, thought by thought,
For good or ill, yet know it not,
Yet so the universe was wrought.
Thought is another name for fate;
Choose, then, thy destiny and wait,
For love brings love and hate brings hate."
They're endowed with bodies and breath and wings;
And that we send them forth to fill
The world with good results or ill.
That which we call our secret thought
Speeds forth to earth's remotest spot,
Leaving its blessings or its woes,
Like tracks behind it as it goes.
We build our future, thought by thought,
For good or ill, yet know it not,
Yet so the universe was wrought.
Thought is another name for fate;
Choose, then, thy destiny and wait,
For love brings love and hate brings hate."
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