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| If you would
win a man to your cause, first convince him that
you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of
honey that catches his heart, which, say what you
will, is the great high-road to his reason, and
which, when once gained, you will find but little
trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice
of your cause. |
Abraham
Lincoln (1809-1865), U.S. president. Address, 22
Feb. 1842, to the Washingtonian Temperance
Society, Springfield, Ill. |
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| Common
looking people are the best in the world: that is
the reason the Lord makes so many of them. |
Abraham
Lincoln (1809-65), U.S. president. Quoted in:
John Hay, Lincoln and the Civil War in the
Diaries and Letters of John Hay (ed. by Tyler
Dennett, 1939), entry for 23 Dec. 1863, said in a
dream in reply to one who had called Lincoln
"common looking." Lincoln's words on
this occasion have also been given as, "The
Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the
reason He makes so many of them." Quoted in:
James Morgan, Our Presidents, ch. 6 (1928). |
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| No man is
good enough to govern another man without that
other's consent. |
Abraham
Lincoln (1809-65), U.S. president. Speech, 16
Oct. 1854, Peoria, Ill., in the first of the
Lincoln-Douglas debates. |
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| As I would
not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This
expresses my idea of democracy. |
Abraham
Lincoln (1809-65), U.S. president. Autograph
fragment, c. 1 Aug. 1858 (published in The
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 2, ed.
by Roy P. Basler, 1953). |
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| Let not him
who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for
himself, thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built. |
Abraham
Lincoln (1809-65), U.S. president. Speech, 21
March 1864, in reply to committee from the New
York Workingmen's Association. |
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| The ballot
is stronger than the bullet. |
Abraham
Lincoln (1809-65), U.S. president. Speech, 19 May
1856, Bloomington, Ill. |
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| The
government's view of the economy could be summed
up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it.
If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops
moving, subsidize it. |
Ronald
Reagan (b. 1911), U.S. Republican politician,
president. Address, 15 Aug. 1986, to the White
House Conference on Small Business. |
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| No
government ever voluntarily reduces itself in
size. Government programs, once launched, never
disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the
nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on
this earth! |
Ronald
Reagan (b. 1911), U.S. Republican politician,
president. "A Time for Choosing,"
television address, 27 Oct. 1964 (published in
Speaking My Mind, 1989). |
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| Government
does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. |
Ronald
Reagan (b. 1911), U.S. Republican politician,
president. Speech, 11 Dec. 1972 (published in
Speaking My Mind, "The Wit and Wisdom of
Ronald Reagan," 1989). |
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| I. |
Nothing in our material
world can come from nowhere or go nowhere, nor
can it be free: everything in our economic life
has a source, a destination, and a cost that must
be paid. |
| II. |
Government is never a
source of goods. Everything produced is produced
by the people, and everything that government
gives to the people, it must first take from the
people. |
| III. |
The only valuable money
that government has to spend is that money taxed
or borrowed out of the people's earnings. When
government decides to spend more than it has thus
received, that extra unearned money created out
of thin air, through the banks, and, when spent,
takes on value only by reducing the value of all
money, savings, and insurance. |
| IV. |
In our modern exchange
economy, all payroll and employment come from
customers, and the only worthwhile job security
is customer security; if there are no customers,
there can be no payroll and no jobs. |
| V. |
Customer security can be
achieved by the worker only when he cooperates
with management in doing the things that win and
hold customers. Job security, therefore, is a
partnership problem that can be solved only in a
spirit of understanding and cooperation. |
| VI. |
Because wages are the
principal cost of everything, wide-spread wage
increases, without corresponding increases in
production, simply increase the cost of
everybody's living. |
| VII. |
The greatest good for
the greatest number means, in its materials
sense, the greatest goods for the greatest number
which, in turn, means the greatest productivity
per worker. |
| VIII. |
All productivity is
based on three factors: 1) natural resources,
whose form, place and condition are changed by
the expenditure of 2) human energy (both muscular
and mental), with the aid of 3) tools. |
| IX. |
Tools are the only one
of these three factors that man can increase
without limit, and tools come into being in a
free society only when there is a reward for the
temporary self-denial that people must practice
in order to channel part of their earnings away
from purchases that produce immediate comfort and
pleasure, and into new tools of production.
Proper payment for the use of tools is essential
to their creation. |
| X. |
The productivity of the
tools--that is, the efficiency of the human
energy applied in connection with their use--has
always been highest in a competitive society in
which the economic decisions are made by millions
of progress seeking individuals, rather than in a
state-planned society in which those decisions
are made by a handful of all-powerful people,
regardless of how well-meaning, unselfish,
sincere and intelligent those people may be. |
Words
presumed to be of Thomas Jefferson - Reproduced
by Michael E. Labanowski – 1996
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Quality is job one |
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Add value |
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Great people |
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Leadership |
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Teamwork |
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Results |
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Information is power, If shared |
ü |
Communicate |
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Appreciate others |
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Flexibility |
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Consistency |
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Confidence |
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Honesty |
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Balance of life |
A winner is always part of the
answer.
A loser is always part of the problem.A
winner always has a program.
A loser always has an excuse.
A winner says, "Let me do it for
you".
A loser says, "That's not my job".
A winner sees an answer for every
problem.
A loser sees a problem for every answer.
A winner sees a green near every sand
trap.
A loser sees two or three sand traps near ever
green.
A winner says, "It may be
difficult, but it's possible".
A loser says, "It may be possible, but it's
too difficult".
Be a Winner!
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| Rule 1: The
customer is always right. Rule 2: If the customer is wrong,
re-read rule #1.
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Stew Leonard
- Norwalk, Connecticut
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| If you score, you
may win.
If your man never scores, you always win!
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MEL's
Coach Bill Tweedy - Tamarac High School - Troy, NY
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If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't
it's almost a clinch, you won't.
Life's battles don't always go
to the stronger or faster man.
But soon or late the man who wins
is the one who thinks he can. |
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