The Germ of Happiness

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Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. – Chinese Proverb




Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another. – Norman Mailer



Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. – Edward Abbey



It is usually wise to let key people have some voice in choosing those with whom they must work. But if you are building for growth, recognize that a weaker man will not willingly choose a stronger man who may soon become a threat to his own position and security. – H.B. Maynard



Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. – Pearl S. Buck



The is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe. – Publilius Syrus



The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. – George Eliot

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Darkly Comical Quotes

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An executive is a man who decides; sometimes he decides right, but always he decides. – John H. Patterson

Unless the job means more than the pay it will never pay more. – H. Bertram Lewis

A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh. – Raymond Hitchcock

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. – Walter Duranty

While an open mind is priceless, it is priceless only when its owner has the courage to make a final decision which closes the mind for action after the process of viewing all sides of the question has been completed. Failure to make a decision after due consideration of all the facts will quickly brand a man as unfit for a position of responsibility. Not all of your decisions will be correct. None of us is perfect. But if you get into the habit of making decisions experience will develop your judgement to a point where more and more of your decisions will be right. After all, it is better to be right 51% of the time and get something done, than it is to get nothing done because you fear to reach a decision. – H.W. Andrews

Never trust a monkey.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. – John Bubbock

Unless a business can stay in the black over the long term, averaging the bad years with good, it cannot sustain itself. A manager may have laudable social intentions of providing security for his employees, better products at lower prices for his customers. But if he cannot keep the business going in realizing these intentions he is defeated before he begins. – Paul Garrett

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other. – George Eliot

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him. – Owen D. Young