I have spent more than a decade trying to improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable people on earth, and they've taught me countless lessons.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom
William James described success as a combination of two things. An inner ideal which is followed persistently with courage and Outer achievement related to that ideal.
I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.
In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.
In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.
My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
I totally don't know what to do." He got up and started pacing. "Am I supposed to get you a present? Or maybe a card. I'm completely lost.
Ranger Steve Koehler: Next available is May 17, 2003. Christopher McCandless: 12 years? Twelve years - to paddle down a river?
Christopher McCandless: If I wanted to paddle down the river, where's the best place to launch out of? Ranger Steve Koehler: To *launch* out of?
I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don't mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.
Unfortunately, with fertility, time is not your friend. People are waiting longer to get married and longer to have kids, and so many more people are experiencing fertility issues. But no one ever talks about it.
