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October 17, 2010

Vanderbuilt

"North Star" name of yacht

Make money by selling what people want for less than they, competitors or govt can provide it for.

Vanderbuilt was:
1. Deep knowledge of affairs
2. Willing to face danger
3. A man of his word

Master planner and improviser

The future is made by acts in the present.

October 17, 2010

Vince Lombardi once said...

There's only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give everything. A man is finest in his hour when he has worked his heart out in a good cause, lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious.

October 17, 2010

The Penalty of Leadership

BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- One of the greatest automobile advertisements ever produced was a magazine ad for Cadillac, written way back in 1915 by legendary Detroit ad man Ted MacManus, entitled “The Penalty of Leadership.” It read in part:

October 17, 2010

Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

October 17, 2010

General Quotes

Blame no one, expect nothing, do something.
- Bill Parcels - NYJ locker room

Make plans for 100 years, but be ready to die at any moment.  Director of Alive interview "Stranded".

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
~ Friedrich Engels

October 17, 2010

"On the Field"

There are only those on the field, and those on the sidelines...  Here's to a few scars, bruises, losses and victories!!!!!!!!

-- Richard Hearn 2009

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