9 to 5

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success. - Brian Tracy

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. - Les Brown: Motivational speaker and author.

All work and no play will make (persons name) a dull boy/girl.

Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away. - Gerald R. Ford (1913-2006, Thirty-eighth President of the USA

And will you succeed? You will indeed (98 and 3/4's percent guaranteed!) - Dr. Seuss (1904-1991 cartoonist of political satire and children's books)

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.

Be nice to people on your way up because you may meet them on your way down. -- Jimmy Durante (actor comedian)

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)

The box said “ Requires Windows 98 or better.” So I installed Linex.

By the Numbers

By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.
-- Ronald Reagan (1911-,actor, governor, Fortieth President US)

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch what makes you go beyond the norm. - Cicely Tyson (American Actress dancer stage “Kizzy” in Roots )

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. - Elizabeth Clarke Dunn

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power. -- Brian Tracy (Author and speaker on human potential)

A cluttered desk is a sign of genius. A clean desk is the sign of a sick mind.

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. - Henry Ford (1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company – the assembly line)

Confidence is contagious. So is the lack of it. - Vince Lombardi (1913-1970 All time winningest coach NFL -Green Bay Packers)

Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. -- Og Mandino (1923-1996, American motivational author, speaker)

Diplomacy: the art of letting someone do it your way.

Diplomacy: the art of letting someone think that your idea is really their idea.

Do more than you need to; Care more than you have to; Learn more than is required!

Do not follow where the path may lead,
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail behind you. - Raulph Waldow Emerson

Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead wins the race. - Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919, American Industrialist, Philanthropist)

Don't ask me, I just work here.

Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade." Instead, learn the trade. ~ Attributed to both James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. - Charles Schultz (1922-2000 "Peanuts" comic strip)

Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition. - George Washington Carver (1864-1943, American Scientist)

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.
-- Roy Ash (President of Litton Industries.)

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised. --Denis Waitley (b.1933 American author, speaker, trainer, peak performance expert)

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Denis Waitley (b.1933 American author, speaker, trainer, peak performance expert)

Friends don't let friends use Windows!

A Geek shall inherit the earth. ... Oh! That's right, Bill Gates already has.

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk. - J. C. Penney ( American Retailer)

Good Morning, Let the stress begin!

The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. - Og Mandino (1923-1996, American motivational author, speaker)

Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.

Hard work must have killed somebody

Help me to meet my deadline, Save me from this mess, Ease up my workload. And please, bless my mess.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways how not to make an incandescent light. -- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931 inventor of the incandescent light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera)

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win. If you don't you won't. -- Bruce Jenner (1949-, American track athlete, Olympic decathlon winner 1976, author, speaker)

I like thinking of possibilities. At any time, an entirely new possibility is liable to come along and spin you off in an entirely new direction. The trick, I've learned, is to be awake to the moment. -- Doug Hall: Professional inventor and idea guru.

If I have been able to see farther than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727, British Scientist, Mathematician)

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars or your legs or your hands or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself. -- Dale Carnegie (1888-1955, American Author, Trainer)

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, then you will be fired with enthusiasm. - Vince Lombardi (1913-1970 All time winningest coach NFL -Green Bay Packers)

If you don't set goals for yourself, you are doomed to work to achieve the goals of someone else. - Brian Tracy

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down. - Mary Pickford (1893-1979, Canadian-born American Actress)

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. - Mark Twain (1835-1910 pseudonym of Samuel Taylor Clemens, speaker, reporter, writer, "Adventures of Tom Sawyer"- life satirist, American Humorist)

If you want to win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA)

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. -- Debbi Fields (Founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies.)

Instant Human -- Just add coffee

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't. - Martin Van Buren (1837-1841 eighth US President).

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882, British Naturalist)

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. -- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962 First Lady of FDR 1933-1945)

It takes money to make money.

It takes time to save time.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved 
us into action and discipline that enabled us to follow through. 
 - Zig Ziglar (b.1932 American author, salesperson, and motivational speaker)

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. - Jean Nidetch: Founder and Consultant, Weight Watchers International, Inc.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. - - Tom Brokaw (Nightly News anchor)

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. -- Yogi Berra (b.1925 Baseball Hall of Fame player NY Yankees and coach Yankees, Mets, Astros)

It's Wabbit Season!   No, IT'S DUCK SEASON!!   NO, IT'S TAX SEASON!!!  (adapted from Looney Toons cartoons)

A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part!!!

Lawyers have feelings, too, Allegedly.

A leader with no followers is just a guy taking a walk.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. True progress is when you make new, bigger, better mistakes and the next guy learns from them.

Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success. -- David O. McKay

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. - Rose Kennedy (mother of JFK the 35th President)

The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people ; their motivation and direction.
-- Ken Gilbert

Maturity begins when we're content to be right about something without finding it necessary to prove that someone else is wrong. --Barbara Johnson

May the Source Code be with you, always.

Mission Statement: We the willing,
Lead by the Unknowing
Are doing the impossible
For the Ungrateful.
We have done so much for so long with so little,
We are now qualified to do anything with nothing,
overnight.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA)

My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more. - Og Mandino (1923-1996, American Inspirational Writer, Speaker)

My job is secure, nobody wants it.

My motto was to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was to keep swinging. - Hank Aaron (b.1934 Hall of Fame Baseball Player for Millwakee and Atlanta- Hit 755 Home Runs)

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. -- Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961 head of the bank of Sweden, coined the phrase “planned economy”, UN delegate, won the Nobel Peace Prize for Peace in 1961 -plane was shot down over Katanga trying to negotiate a cease fire.)

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. - Charles Kendall Adams

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible, but they are involved all the same. -- Stanislaus Lezczynski

Number crunching/ cruncher

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~ Henry Ford (1863-1947 Father of the Ford Motor Company and the assembly line, founder of The Ford Moter Company)

On The Job

One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is better than half-a-hundred half-finished tasks. - B.C. Forbes (American Businessman)

The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary. -- Vidal Sassoon (American Hairdresser, Businessman)

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931 prolific inventor)

Optimist: The glass is HALF full!
Pessimist: The glass is HALF empty!
Engineer: The glass is TWICE the size it needs to be!

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. --John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848, Sixth President of the USA

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be. -- Harvey MacKay (Newspaper columnist, author, and business motivational speaker.)

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily. -- Zig Ziglar (b.1926, American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker)

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. - Edward Eggleston (American writer, historian)

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965, Prime Minister of England during WWII)

The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. -- Leo Rosten

Pushing the Limits/Envelope

Quittin' Time!!

Ready to Roll

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~ Les Brown (b.1945 American speaker, author, trainer, motivator)

Some days are a total waste of makeup.

Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.

Spend each moment perfecting the next, not correcting the last. -- Scott Michael Durski

SS-DD > same stuff [usually (sh..) expletive] different day DS-SD > different stuff same day

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1. -- Arthur Ashe (1943-1993, African-American tennis player, civil rights and ADIS activist)

Success is not permanent. The same is also true for failure.

Thank God it's May (after tax season)

Thank God it's Friday / TGIF

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure. -- Colin Powell (U.S. Army General retired and frm secretary of state.)

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~ Beverly Sills

There can't be a crisis this week! My schedule is already full!!

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right. - Bill Cosby (born 1937 William H. Cosby Jr. PhD, comedian, actor -movies, &TV, author, producer, jazz composer)

There is nothing like a dream to create the future. -- Victor Hugo

There is only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. -- Vince Lombardi (1913-1970, American football coach Green Bay Packer coach)

There never seems to be enough time to do it right, and there's not always enough time to do it over, so plan your time wisely and do it right the first time. There's often no way you can look into the game of life and determine whether or not you'll get that big break tomorrow or whether it will take another week, month, year or even longer. But it will come! - Zig Ziglar (b.1926, American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker)

This is a story about a guy, who like most of us, sometimes questions his existence, measuring himself to others, not believing enough in his abilities or his own worth. Then one day, his passion outgrew his fears as he stepped onto a stage, (Britain's Got Talent Show ) a stage that took him to a place beyond his self-imposed prison. When he walked out on the stage in his $75 suit and open dress shirt you could almost see what the judges were thinking. They pre-judged him based on his looks and the fact that he's a cell phone salesman. He started to sing and he blew their socks off!!! Maybe he just stopped believing in what people told him for so many years and ultimately started listening to his passion. (One of the judges was Simon Cowell “This was a complete breath of fresh air. I thought you were absolutely fantastic!”)

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

Trends and Technology

A true test of humility is whether you can say grace before eating crow.

Try not. Do or do not. There is no try. ~ Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~ Beverly Sills

The ultimate inspiration is a deadline.

We are not here to merely make a living. We are here to enrich the world, and we impoverish ourselves if we forget this errand. - Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA)

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill (1874-1965, Prime Minister of England during WWII)

Weather you think you CAN or think you CAN'T - you're probably RIGHT!

What you are will show in what you do. - Thomas Edison (1847-1931, American Inventor and Founder of GE)

Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. At least I'll learn something new. - Mae West (American Actress of the 20's and 30's)

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.  Andrew Granatelli: Racing Icon and STP Oil Founder

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. - James Allen: Author, As a Man Thinketh.

Working hard, or hardly working?

You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end. - Sidney A. Friedman (b.1935, American Entrepreneur, Motivational Speaker, Author)

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. - Henry Ford (1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company – the assembly line)

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change. - Les Brown (b.1945 American speaker, author, trainer, motivator)

You don't just luck into things. You build them step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
- Barbara Bush (American First Lady, Wife of President George H.W.Bush and mother of George W.)

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning. - Billy Wilder (1906-2002, American Film Director)

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature. -- Les Brown (b. 1945 American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer)

Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision. - Bob Proctor (Self-help author and motivational speaker.)