"Knowledge of my business" Quotes of the week (#8).

Sunday:
"Anyone who stops learning is old -whether at twenty or eigthy. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." Henry Ford.
Monday:
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little". Theodoro Rossolvelt
Tuesday:
Justice. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty. Benjamin Franklin
Wednesday:
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Thursday:
We are not short on practices; we are short on practice. Karl Wiegers.
Friday:
Learning is to the studios, and riches to the careful, as well as power to the bold, and Heaven to the virtuous.
Saturday:
Diligence is the mother of good look. Benjamin Franklin

"Sincerity" Quotes of the week (#7).

Sunday:
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and if you speak, speak accordingly. (Benjamin Franklin)
Monday:
"I will speak ill of no man - and speak all the good I know of everybody"Praise your competitors.
Tuesday:
To win and hold the confidence of others, Rule one is: Deserve confidence.
Wednesday:
Know your business and keep on knowing your business.
Thursday:
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise is in his heart. (Benjamin Franklin)
Friday:
Bring you witness.
Saturday:
Look your best. "Put yourself in the hands of an expert".

"Silence: Listen" Quotes of the week (#6).

Sunday:
Industry: Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecesary actions . (Benjamin Franklin)
Monday:
Ask a man: "How did you happen to get started in this business? then, be a good listener.
Tuesday:
"There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too" Cicero.
Wednesday:
"What is the answer?... In that case, what is the question?"
(Gertrude Stein).
Thursday:
Considering that in conversation knowledge was obtained rather by the use of the ears than of the tongue, I gave Silence second place among the virtues I determined to cultivate. (Benjamin Franklin)
Friday:
The shortcut to popularity is to lend everyone your ears instend of given your tongue. There is nothing you can possibily say to an individual that would be half as interesting to him as the things he is dying yo tell you about himself. And all you need, in order to get the reputation of being a fascinating companion, is to say: "How wonderful" Do tell me some more.

"Key issue" Quotes of the week (#5).

Sunday:
Frugality -Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing. (Benjamin Franklin)
Monday:
"I can't go on, I go on". (Samuel Beckett)
Tuesday:
"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions".(Lillian Hellman 1905 - 1984)
Wednesday:
Think what you do when you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty. (Benjamin Franklin).
Thursday:
The most important secret of salesmanship is to find out what the others wants, and then help him the best way to get it.
Friday:
There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it. Remember, there is no other way.(When you show a men what he wants, he will move heaven and earth to get it). Dale Carnegie
Saturday:
Cultivate the art of asking questions. Questions, rather than positive statements, can be the most effective means of making a sale, or winning people to your way of thinking. Inquire rather than attack.

Find the key issue, the most vulnerable point, then stick to it.

Scaling Software Agility

We note that the roots of this iterative process also grew from basic object-oriented thinking.(XP:Smalltalk; Scrum:Easel; RUP:OMT, Booch and Objectory). Perhaps here we have the final evidence that the advent of OO fundamentally changed the way we viewed system development practices. The pace of development accelerated; systems were more readily adapted and refactored; companion processes adapted to become fundamentally iterative in nature.

Dean Leffingwell

"Questions" Quotes of the week (4).

Sunday:
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. (Benjamin Franklin)
Tuesday:
Well? Shall we go? Yes, let's go. [They do not move] (Samuel Beckett)
Wednesday:
You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great. (Les Brown)
Thursday:
We are not short on practices; we are short on practice. (Karl Wiegers)
Friday:
Tolerance is the one essential ingredient.
Saturday:
If you have nothing nice to say don't say anything.

"Think in terms of other's interest" quotes of the week. (#3)

Sunday:
Deserve confidence. The real test is: do you believe it, not, will the other person believe it?
Monday:
You are either part of the solution or you are part of the problem.
Tuesday:
And as I know that God is found more often in the lowliest of His creatures than in the high and mighty, I am struggling to reach the status of these. (Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma(Great Soul) Gandhi 1869 -1948.
Wednesday:

· All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, then success is sure.

Thursday:

· What therefore God hath joined together, let not men put asonder. Bible

Friday:

· Let's hope it last!

Saturday:
Asking a person to change his habits or to be consisten in action are the two most difficul request I can think of. (Alistair CockBurn)