#hip

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#inspirational #leadership #reality #age

No matter what your reason for wanting to start your own business, developing the foundation is the same. Laying a solid foundation for you business will provide you with a road map to follow as you build your business. As you work through the Start a Business Step-by-Step Workbook you will define the company’s mission, decide what business entity is right for your business, name your business, determine the pricing for your products or services, formulate your financial projections, define your competitors, survey consumers regarding your products or services, determine the marketing methods right for your business and more. ↗

— Jeanne A. Estes

#business-plan #business-start-up #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #entrepreneurship-training

Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#inspirational #leadership #success #business

Leaders can choose to grow and change, but generally the most powerful predictor of future performance is past behavior. Evaluate them realistically. ↗

— Lee Ellis

#leadership #military #business

Affirming others isn’t ‘flattering’ them—it’s when you genuinely and consistently acknowledge their efforts and accomplishments, both large and small. Make affirmation a habit and watch what happens! ↗

— Lee Ellis

#leadership #military #business

Care for your infant business or career as you would care for your infant child - with loving attention, with no expectation of any reward, being in the moment with it, accepting it as is, watching it grow, enjoying every step of the way. ↗

— Marc Allen

#entrepreneurship #business

Careers are developed one conversation at a time - over time. ↗

— Beverly Kaye Julie Winkle Giulioni

#careers #leadership #management #business

Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that. ↗

— Ally Condie

#friendship #growing-up #change

Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn't going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#friendships #relationships #change

Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing. ↗

— Brian L. Weiss

#spirituality #change