10 inspirational quotes to keep you and your business going.

Czerwiec 5th, 2011

Dear readers,

Welcome to this week's BEM Blog post. With the summer holiday just around the corner and stifling temperatures outside, it must be hard to keep your focus on work and business. This is why I have prepared a list of 10 inspirational quotes that should cool down your mind just as ice cold water cools down your body.

1. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

- Norman Schwarzkopf

2. The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

-Dennis Waitley

3. Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.

- George Van Valkenburg

4. A man should never neglect his family for business.

- Walt Disney

5. If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example.

- Ingvar Kamprad

6. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

- Bill Gates

7. I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

- Robert Bosch

8. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

- Mahatma Gandhi

9. Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!

- Henry Ford

10. Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

-Denis Waitley

VOCABULARY:

1. stifling - ciepły duszny , parny

2. potent - mocny, potężny

3. in terms of - w kategorii

4. waking - przytomny, świadomy

5. neglect - zaniedbywać

6. wage - pensja

7. relish - cieszyć się

8. scale the mountain - wspinać się na szczyt góry

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