Quote of the Week

The quality of our performance today, is the perception of our services tomorrow. (Yves Miserez)

Tomorrow the sun will shine brighter!

'Everyone lives by selling something.' (Kevin Hogan)

'Grey skies are just clouds passing over.' (Duke Ellington)

'The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving and living in the present.' (Barbara De Angelis)

'The past cannot be changed. The future is still in your power.' (Hugh White)

'An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.' (Jack Welch)

'You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.' (Edward De Bono)

'Rather than saying 'I'm tired' you could also say 'I could do with more energy'.  It's the same thing yet so different.' (Yves Miserez)

'Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.' (Judy Garland)

'The way you communicate is a direct result of your "state of the heart".' (David R. Michaels)

'If you don't like what you got, then re-arrange it.' (John Lavalle)

'Success is to do what you must do, when you must do it, whether you like it or not.' (Steven Boyley)

'There's always a better way to do things - find it.' (Jim Lovell - Astronaut Apollo 13)

'FINAO: Failure is not an option.' (Gene Kranz - Flight Commander Apollo 13)

'We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. the amount of work is the same.' (Carlos Casteneda)

'Cherish the questions, because the answers keep changing.' (Albert Einstein)

'Do something new every day.' (Deepak Chopra)

'Turn a duty into a pleasure.' (Joost Drenthe)

'The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.' (Yves Miserez)

'Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood.' (Marie Curie)

'Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do.  This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.' (Mark Twain)

'Make sure you laugh enough and several times per day.  It is a very cheap medicine.' (Yves Miserez)

'I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.'  (Sophocles)

'No matter what we feel or know, no matter what our potential gifts or talents, only action brings them to life.' (Dan Millman)

'For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace in mind.' (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

'The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.' (Marcel Proust)

'It is not enough to do your best.  You must know what to do, and THEN do your best.' (W. Edwards Deming)

'If what you do does not work, then change what you're doing.' (Richard Bandler)

"There is nothing so unequal as the equal treatment of unequals." (Kenneth Blanchard)

'Remember yesterday, dream about tomorrow, and above all, live today.' (Virginia Satir)

'6 P Principle: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent a Poor Performance.' (Bob Jacobson)

'Pair yourself with pleasurable stimuli.  Other persons will begin to associate you with those feelings.  This is the law of association.' (David J. Lieberman)

'If you want to fly with the eagles, don't eat with the chickens.' (Bob Procter).

'Now and then it's good to pauze in your pursuit of hapiness, and just be happy.' (Guillaume Appolinaire)

'Always be willing to look at both sides of the argument.  Understanding the other side is the best way to strenghten your own.' (Yves Miserez)

'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.' (Charles Darwin)

'We can make two choices: we can make a living or we can design a life.' (Jim Rohn)

'What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.' (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

'The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.' (Jim Rohn)

'Make sure your goals are high enough.  If you don't need much, you won't become much.' (Yves Miserez)

'Those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly.' (Robert F. Kennedy)

'Your state of mind equals your resource.' (Steven Boiley, Performance Institute of NLP)

'In order to succeed at trying, you must fail at doing.' (Yves Miserez, Optima Facto)

'The possession of knowlegde does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery.  There is always more mystery.' (Anais Nin)

'As the new year dawns, it brings in new horizons and goals... So look forward to a new and prosperous year.'

'Thought become things.' (The secret)

'Good humour is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.' (William Makepeace Thackeray)

'You become what you think of.' (Earl Nightingale)

'Life's truest happiness is found in friendships we make along the way.' (Lauren Ruiz)

'The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.' (Joan Didion)

'Check emails at intervals - try to limit it to four to six times a day. Otherwise, you will develop "emailitis" and your productivity and effectiveness will plummit." (Suzanna Harwell)

'There is no distance too great between friends, for love gives to the heart.' (Elisabeth E. Koehler)

'Without personal transformation, nothing will change.' (Prof. W. Edwards Deming)

'Strategy, structure, culture and system are never the central problem. Whereas these are important matters in change, the heart of change is always human behaviour.' (John P. Kotter)

'To laugh often and much
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of flase friends
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy ...

'Yes' is contagious on a subliminal level.  It affects everything you do.' (By Sark)

'The answer in life is in the traveling and in the footprints we leave behind.' (Yves Miserez)

'To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?' (Katherine Graham)

'Most people think of success in terms of getting.  Success, however, begins in terms of giving.' (Henry Ford)

'Nobody limits us but ourselves.' (Eli Goldratt)

'Our real problem then, is not our real strenght; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strenght tomorrow.' (Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the USA)

'At the end of the day, it is better to be interested, then to be interesting.' (Jane Fonda-actress)

'The focus on contribution, by itself supplies the four basic requirements of effective human relations:

• 1.Communications
• 2. Teamwork
• 3. Self-development, and
• 4. Development of others.' (Peter F. Drucker- Management Guru)

'Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.' (George Washington - former President of the USA)

'If you fail in your action, admit it frankly and try it again, differently. But above all, try again.' (Franklin D. Roosevelt - Former President of the USA)

'We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.' (Winston Churchill - former Prime Minister of the UK)

'Concentrating on 10% positive issues will bring you much further then being busy worrying on 90% negative issues.' (Yves Miserez - Director Optima Facto)

'Success has one hundred fathers, whereas failure is an orphin.' (Karl D. Hoppe)

'The talent for being happy is appreciated.  It's richer for a person to like what he has, instead of what he doesn't have.' (Yves Miserez)

'Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.' (Jim Rohn - Business philosopher)

'Argue for your limitations and sure enough they'll be yours.' (Richard Bach - management author)

'Strenght lies in differences, not in similarities.' (Stephen Covey - management author)

'In the face of leadership flaws, too many people assume cynical perspectives, rather than do the hard work of building relationships in which they can have more positive influence. (Ira Chaleff)'

'Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.' (Vance Packard)

'He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answer'. (Cameroon Proverb)

'I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be converted that will terminate in greater pleasures.' (Michel de Montaigne)

'Recognition is not always obtained through mature or adaptive behavior.  It is sometimes garnered by disruptive and irresponsible actions.' (Kenneth blanchard)

'It's not the matter you cover so much as it is the manner in which you cover it.' (Jim Rohn)

'Change from the top down happens at the will and whim of those below.' (Peter Block)

'We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are.' (Talmud)

'We are leaving an era of organised organisation, and enter a period wherein the ability to understand the processes of self-organisation, to simplify them and to encourage them will become a key competence.' (Garett Morgan)

'You must either modify your dreams, or magnify your skills.' (Anthony Robbins)

'Deciding is like when your goal is in front of you and a voice in your mind says:"This is the opportunity to go ahead! Go for it." (Steve Boyley - NLP Guru)

'When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.' (Jim Rohn)

'If you do not change, you can become extinct.' (Spencer Johnson - who moved my cheese?)

"If you want prosperity for 1 year, grow grain.

If you want prosperity for 10 years, grow trees.

If you want prosperity for 100 years, grow people." (Chinese proverb)

Leaders must be ready to be judged. '(Keshavan Nair)

'Attitude is contagious. Make sure yours' is worthwhile catching.' (Yves Miserez)

'DO' is the difference between hope and achievement. (Yves Miserez)