In the south there is an old man with a row boat who ferries passengers across a mile wide river for ten cents. Asked “How many times a day do you do this?” he said, “As many times as I can because the more I go the more I get, and if 1 don’t go, I don’t get.” This old man knows well a l…
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I fall else fails, try reading the directions.” How many times have we heard this advice after endless attempts to put together a child’s toy that comes ‘knock-down’. We think, “there’s nothing to this”, until we try to piece together the many strange-looking pieces and find to our dis…
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Daniel Webster, when asked what was the greatest thought that had ever entered his mind, replied: “My accountability to Almighty God”.
This thought evidently hasn’t occurred to many people, at least it wouldn’t appear to be so from the way most people are living. Their lives reflect m…
“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm,” Vince Lombardi once said. Vince Lombardi was a famous football coach who was passionate about his game and demanded that his players share his zeal and enthusiasm. Any player who didn’t play his heart out for the team …
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Are we green and growing or ripe and rotting? This question was a favourite of Ray Kroc, the founder of the McDonalds hamburger chain, who said, “As long as you’re green, you’re growing. As soon as you’re ripe, you start to rot”.
The need for a successful business to keep growing also a…
The Los Angeles County Library recently added the two millionth book to its collection. This is graphic evidence of the truth of Solomon’s remark that “of making many books there is no end.”
Solomon continued his observations by saying that “much study is a weariness of the flesh….
