"Enthusiasm " quotes of the week #1. 3rd round

Sunday:

"All we need to make us really happy is something to beenthusiastic about."

Charles Kingsley

Monday:

"Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic."

Dale Carnegie

Tuesday:

"Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much."

Norman Vincent

Wednesday:

"A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm."

Charles Schwab

Thursday:

"Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitemente is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away."

Denis Waitley

Friday:

"Enthusiasm is contagious - and so is the lack of it."

Saturday:

"Today is life. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto."

Dale Carnegie

"Closing the sale: Action --Humility" quotes of the week #13. 2nd round

Sunday:

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

Isaac Newton

Monday:

"Action conquers fear."

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Tuesday:

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

Conrad Hilton

Wednesday:

"The more you are willing to accept responsability for your actions, the more credibility you will have."

Brian Koslow

Thursday:

"I never worry about action, but only about inaction."

Winston Churchill

Friday:

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Saturday:

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

Epictetus

"Service and prospecting -- Chastity" quotes of the week #12. 2nd round

Sunday:

"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the sales man - not the attitude of the prospect."

W. Clement Stone

Monday:

"Fish where the fish are."

Tuesday:

"Here is a simple but powerful rule - always give people more than what they expect to get."

Nelson Boswell

Wednesday:

"Being on par in terms of price and quality only gets you into the game. Service wins the game."

Tony Alessandra

Thursday:

"Well done is better than well said."

Benjamin Franklin

Friday:

"If you want good service, serve yourself."

Spanish Proverb

Saturday:

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve."

Albert Schewitzer

Holistic Multidisciplinary approach

The Versa was the first of several successful NEC (Japanese PC & laptop computers) projects inspired by a collaborative process we called "Greenhouse." One reason it was so successful was that NEC took a holistic multidisciplinary approach to designing its new products. What does it mean? Many companies rigidly separate functions such as research, design, marketing, and manufacturing, creating walls between groups that have much to teach one another. NEC set out to integrate the whole process, inviting marketing and manufacturing departments to inform the design and broaden communications. As Jane puts it, "you don't just send your researchers out to do research and your designers to do design, you send your designers with researchers to do design and vice-versa."

Jane has spearheaded numerous IDEO efforts to ensure that both designers and clients are part of the observation process that the discovery process is organic-because it's not enough to see or hear what people say, you have to interpret and intuit shades of meaning to divine their underlying motivations and needs.

From the book: The art of innovation by Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman

You've got to out-innovate the innovators

To those few companies sitting on the Innovation fence, business writer Gary Hamel has a dire prediction: "Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You've got one option now-to shoot first. You've got to out-innovate the innovators".

The art of Innovation by Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman

"Remember Faces and names -- Tranquility" quotes of the week #11. 2nd round

Sunday:

"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom."

James Allen

Monday:

"Always tell the truth-it's the easiest thing to remember ."

David Mamet

Tuesday:

"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Wednesday:

"Discipline is remembering what you want."

David Campbell

Thursday:

"It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness."

Thomas Jefferson

Friday:

"Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame."

Thomas a Kempis

Saturday:

"You can conquer any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind."

Dale Carnegie

"Smile - Cleanliness" quotes of the week #10. 2nd round

Sunday:

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." 

Mark Twain

Monday:

"One, who maintains cleanliness keeps away diseases."

Sam Vedaas

Tuesday:

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smalles act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

Leo F. Buscaglia

Wednesday:

"Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it."

Unknown

Thursday:

"Quality, service, cleanliness, and value."

Friday:

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."

Albert Schweitzer

Saturday:

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."

Frederick Keonig