ATTITUDES FOR SUCCESS An ambitious young man asked an experienced salesman for the secret of his success in selling. The salesman said, "There's no great secret, you just have to jump at every opportunity that…
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SMILE Frank Bettger was a major league ball player who turned to sales management after an injury. He later became famous for his inspirational speeches. He would ask people to make a promise to smile…
THINKING LIKE A KING One day Tauler met a beggar. "God give you a good day, my friend," he said. The beggar answered, "I thank God I never had a bad one." Then Tauler said,…
THE ONE FINGER PIANO PLAYER A seminarian was spending his last summer before his final year of schooling as a chaplain in a national park. He had duties with trimming trees, feeding animals and emptying…
A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM A nine- year-old who had leukemia was given six months to live. When the doctor broke the news to her parents outside her hospital room, the youngster overheard the…
CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITIES When Robinson Crusoe was wrecked on his lonely island, he drew up in two columns what he called the evil and the good. He was cast on a desolate island, but he…
THE DIFFERENCE There are two types of people in the world. Those who come into a room and say, "Here I am!" And those who say, "Ah, there you are!" Funny, Funny World
ATTITUDES DIFFER, DEPENDING Years ago Jascha Heifetz, the violinist, made his debut in Carnegie Hall. Among those in the audience waiting to hear him were Josef Hofmann, the celebrated pianist, and Mischa Elman, a great…
CHALLENGE A ship, like a human being, moves best when it is slightly athwart the wind, when it has to keep its sails tight and attend to its course. Ships, like men, do poorly when…
ADVERTISE FOR THE RIGHT ATTITUDE Field- Marshal Wavel has told, in his notable lectures entitled Generals and Generalship, the story of how Napoleon, when an artillery officer at the siege of Toulon, built a battery…
LITTLE THINGS AFFECT ATTITUDES When American farmers started selling Gouda cheese they coated it with yellow wax. But Americans expect Gouda to be covered with red wax. When the wax color was changed, a test…
ATTITUDES AND THE RUNNING METER There's a great way to keep meetings short. It's called an "Econometer" and is the brainchild of Danish engineer Soren T. Lyngsoe. Programmed with the salaries of participants, the electronic…
PUT YOUR BODY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS A Nova Scotia insurance salesman had been told by his boss that he and the other agents were not assertive enough. They were not as outgoing as they…
STAY WITH IT Earl Nightengale writes that the key to many people's success, including his own, is this simple three word formula -- "Stay with it." Persistence pays off in success. He writes: We read…
PARTING SHOT A Frenchman, a Japanese and an American faced a firing squad. Offered a last wish, the Frenchman asked to hear the Marseillaise. The Japanese asked to give one more lecture on Japanese management.…
THE ATTITUDE OF YOUTH Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind, a product of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a predominance of courage over timidity -- an…
ATTITUDE IMPACT A number of years ago a man picked up the morning paper, and, to his horror, read his own obituary. The newspaper had reported the death of the wrong man. The caption read:…
COWARDICE A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage. Napoleon
MORE COWARDICE Or, in the words of the oft- quoted Ambrose Bierce, Coward: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. The Devil's Dictionary
ATTITUDE TOWARDS AGE In the cartoon For Better Or Worse, it shows a mom looking into the mirror and carrying on a conversation with herself. She says, "My face is changing. It's not the same…
