Nick's
Quotes of the Month
Each month we add a new quote to our front page. Quotes chosen by Nick for their wisdom and/or wit.
Here are some previous quotes of the month...
Robert Joss
“By leadership, I mean taking complete responsibility for an
organization's well-being and growth, and changing it for the
better. Real leadership is not about prestige, power or status. It
is about responsibility.”
Will Rogers
“Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they
don't want, to impress people they don't like.”
Andrew Carnegie
“The thorough man of business knows that only by years of patient,
unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is
the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the
attainment to ends.”
Nido Qubein
“The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.”
Paul Clitheroe
“When investing, I’m not against risk. If you take no risk you must
expect a low return. Just don’t let anyone fool you into thinking
you can get a high return with low risk.”
Bill Cosby
“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is
trying to please everybody.”
George Bernard Shaw
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these
apples, then you and I still each have one apple. But if you have an
idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us
will have two ideas.”
Zig Ziglar
“You can get everything in life you want, if you will just help
enough other people get what they want.”
Meyer Rothschild
"Work hard and you will succeed."
Thomas Edison
"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are; first
- hard work, second - stick-to-itiveness and third - common sense."
Henry Kissinger
“If you do not know where you are going, every road will
get you nowhere.”
Kerry Packer
“I pay the tax I am required to pay, not a penny more, not a penny
less. If anybody in this country doesn’t minimize their tax, they
want their heads read because, as a Government, I can tell you
they’re not spending it that well that we should be donating extra.”
Warren Buffet
“I like to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand.”
Arnold H Glasgow
"Efficiency is intelligent laziness."
Benjamin Franklin
"At the working man’s house hunger looks in, but dares not enter."
John DePasquale
"The basic success orientation is having an optimistic attitude."
Richard Pratt
“The best managers manage by walking around. They're visible and
they never, ever tire of going on to the factory floor. They make a
point of visiting their sites at odd times, after hours and on
weekends. They visit their customers frequently."
Sam Walton
“I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good
to our customers, there would be no limit to us.”
T Eric Hesketh
"Poverty is not a crime but it’s certainly an inconvenience. "
Benjamin Franklin
"While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to
adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires.
Instead, most choose the shinier track of debt-driven consumption,
which they find further along is covered in vines and thorns."
John F Kennedy
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
Yiddish Proverb
"With money in your pocket, you are wise, you are handsome and you
can sing well too."
Thomas Edison
"The reason a lot of people do not recognise opportunity is because
it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work."
Henry Ford
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason
why so few engage in it."
Warren Bennis
"Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right
things."
Vidal Sassoon
"The only place where success comes before work is in the
dictionary."
Theodore Roosevelt
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is
knowing how to get along with people."
Confucious
"Be loyal to yourself, charitable to neighbours, nothing more."
Graeme A. S. Brown
"Respect is something you earn. You can’t beg, borrow or steal it.
It’s a process of right doings."
Elbert Hubbard
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually
fearing that you will make one."
Mark Twain
"There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate:
when he can’t afford it and when he can."
Benjamin Franklin
"Beware of little expenses, a small leak will sink a great ship."
Peter Costello
"If you want to save, put money into superannuation, you will never
find a better savings vehicle."
James Allen
"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts, and
right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."
Albert Einstein
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that
counts can be counted."
Theodore Roosevelt
“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people
to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from
meddling with them while they do it."
Margaret Thatcher
“I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit
there and agree with me, that’s not their job.”
Gary Player
“The harder I work, the luckier I get!"
Fortune Magazine
"The manager administers, the leader innovates. The manager
maintains, the leader develops. The manager relies on systems, the
leader relies on people. The manager counts on controls, the leader
counts on trust. The manager does things right, the leader does the
right thing."
Ray Croc (McDonalds
Restaurants Founder)
“Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself."
Dr Phil McGraw
"People who have ownership in a plan are much less likely to thwart
it, because that would amount to an admission of failure on their
part."
Zig Ziglar
“If you do the things you ought to do when you ought to do them,
very soon you will be able to do the things you want to do when you
want to do them.”
Joseph Addison
“I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of
his earnings, and strictly honest, who complained of bad luck.”
Malcolm B Thiel
“The grass is not greener on the other side of the fence. It is
greener where you water it.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out
and remove all doubt.”
Platinum Asset
Management
“Euphoria sweeps reason aside when the stock market bolts. Resist
the temptation to overstay the party and you’ll avoid the hangover.”
William A Foster
“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high
intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful
execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives."
Stephen Covey
“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light
that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”
Dwight D Eisenhower
“A sense of humour is part of the art of leadership, of getting
along with people, of getting things done”
Martin Luther King
Jr
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of
comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge
and controversy.”
John D Rockefeller
Jr.
“I have been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things,
employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their
interests are common, not opposed; that in the long run the success
of each is dependent upon the success of the other.”
Jim Rohn
“You don’t get paid for the hour, you get paid for the value you
bring to the hour.”
Malcolm Forbes
"The dumbest people I know are those who Know It All."
Rick Hansen
"The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should
be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be
challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you
break."
Winston Churchill
“Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to
unlocking our potential."
Samuel Goldwyn
"No man who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from
life."
George S Clason
from The Richest Man in Babylon
"Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will
put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate
for his future and that of his family."
Nicholas Matsis
"A Business will unlikely fall in a heap if it controls costs, and
furthermore, it’s surprising how many problems a little bit of
profit solves."
Proverbs 24:3-4
"Any enterprise is built by wise planning, becomes strong through
common sense, and profits wonderfully by keeping abreast of the
facts."
Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.
"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets
even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or
Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that
all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a
great streetsweeper who did his job well.'”
Muhammad Ali
"I hated every minute of the training, but I said, 'Don’t quit.
Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"
Mark Twain
“ A Banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is
shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”
Chinese Proverb
“ He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask
remains a fool forever.”
Alfred E Perlman
“After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over
carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after
ten years, throw it away and start all over”
Walt Disney
“If you can dream it, you can do it”
Lord Chesterfield
“Few people do business well who do nothing else”
Oprah Winfrey
“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity”
Colin Pearce
"If you could kick the person in the backside who is most
responsible for your troubles, you would not be able to sit down for
a week."
Marilyn Monroe
"A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with a career on a
cold night." Charles Buxton “You must never ‘find’ time for
anything. If you want time you must make it.”
Louis E Boone
“Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The
saddest summary of a life is: could have, might have and should
have.”
Randall T Davidson
“The simple virtues of willingness, readiness, alertness, and
courtesy will carry a man farther than mere smartness.”
Othello
“Reputation, reputation, reputation – the one immortal part of man.”
Will Smith
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they
don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.
Lindsay Fox
“They’re not staff, they’re people, and they don’t work for you they
work with you.”
Don Farnden
“If you want to reap the great and abundant rewards your business
can provide you, you’re going to have to have to do some
not-so-glamorous things at some not-so-convenient times.”
Ruth Smeltzer
“You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your
money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be
able to repay you.”
John David Wright
“Business is like riding a bicycle, either you keep moving or you
fall down."