Tuesday, December 4, 2007
When You Fail, Don't Give Up
These people didn’t.
R.H.Macy failed seven times before his store in New York caught on.
Novelist John Creasey got 753 rejection slips before he published the first of his 564 books.
Thomas Edison was thrown out of school in the early grades when the teachers decided he could not do the work.
Harry S. Truman failed as a haberdasher.
When Bob Dylan performed at a high school talent show, his classmates booed him off the stage.
W. Clement Stone, successful insurance company executive and founder of Success magazine, was a high school drop out.
R.H.Macy failed seven times before his store in New York caught on.
Novelist John Creasey got 753 rejection slips before he published the first of his 564 books.
Thomas Edison was thrown out of school in the early grades when the teachers decided he could not do the work.
Harry S. Truman failed as a haberdasher.
When Bob Dylan performed at a high school talent show, his classmates booed him off the stage.
W. Clement Stone, successful insurance company executive and founder of Success magazine, was a high school drop out.
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Turning Connections Into Compatriots
Health, Wealth and Children
Pay careful attention to these three things that engender the deepest emotional bonds between people: health wealth and children.
When you support people during an illness, help increase their personal wealth, or take a sincere interest in their children, you engender lifelong loyalty.
You help them fulfill their most basic needs and allow them to move up Maslow’s pyramid of needs to address some of their higher desires.
Pay careful attention to these three things that engender the deepest emotional bonds between people: health wealth and children.
When you support people during an illness, help increase their personal wealth, or take a sincere interest in their children, you engender lifelong loyalty.
You help them fulfill their most basic needs and allow them to move up Maslow’s pyramid of needs to address some of their higher desires.
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