Beyond the Rhetoric

As most business owners are aware, the reputation a company develops in the real world can have a very big impact on sales. The business that has safe and useful products, excellent customer service, and a history of social responsibility can become a pillar of the community, trusted and patronized by a fair portion of [...]

“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.” Quality is far more important and valuable than quantity. And this is particularly well represented by English poet John Keats. He only lived to [...]

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” We had previously traveled through the Netherlands with artist Vincent van Gogh and through to France with Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Continuing with my journeys through Europe, I [...]

“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.” Continuing with my journeys through Europe, I have now departed from the Netherlands (last week’s Sunday Snippet featured a Vincent van Gogh quote) and am currently [...]

“It is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.” Since I am [...]