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Too many people climb the ladder of success, only to find it is leaning against the wrong wall. (unkn) Why not go for the CEO job? Jim just took a job as a manager of a small company. He’s been a CEO before. He took the lowly manager’s job because he likes it better than being CEO. [...]  Career plans often fail because people don’t know what they really want. Do you want security? Challenges? Thrill rides? The hottest technology today is the Amazon Kindle Fire. It is simply a small computer. Its rise was carefully planned. The most significant pieces of the plan included a snazzy look, rugged portability, and simple secure paid [...] Most career plans don’t include the most important element in job advancement. Let me show it to you. An usher at the movie theater I worked at wanted to become the lead usher. After the movie started he would always be the first to grab a broom and start sweeping the lobby. Once he even told me [...] When I started at EDS I was learning at an incredible rate. Pay raises came quickly and easily. By my third year things slowed down. By my fifth year I settled into a dreary cycle of little new personal growth and cost of living raises. I managed to get assigned to a new team using [...] The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. (Jeremy Rifkin) Lufkin is the premiere maker of the pumps sucking oil from Oklahoma’s prairies. In 1981 used Lufkin [...] Are you trying to be successful doing the work that successful people throw out? This true story is about more than salespeople. It is about accountants, programmers and managers too. Paul, beginning his job in sales, told me, “My manager seems to be able to make a sale every time we go on a call together. [...] If you want to do something else, look for someone who can help you achieve that dream. You may first have to hitch your career to a place that will help you pay for the school education you need. The time will come when you are too constricted there. You will have the school education. Next you need The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty, not knowing what comes next. (LeGuin) Success isn’t permanent, and failure isn’t fatal. (Ditka) I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a [...] The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. (Thoreau) My wife’s best friend was having chest pains a couple of years ago. She spent the night in the hospitals heart treatment center. She’s one of the nicest, busiest people I know. Friends and family came to visit. If she dies she has nothing to worry [...] I believe that every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity an obligation, every possession a duty. (Rockefeller) With up to 9 kids (we have 10) at home, we drink a lot of milk. There isn’t enough room in our 2 refrigerators to keep enough fresh milk. We use powdered milk instead. Every morning I get up [...] |
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