Previous Quotes of the Month

Each month we add a new quote of the month to our front page.

Quotes chosen by Nick for their wisdom and/or wit.
Here are some previous quotes of the month...

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 neighbors, 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.