Looking for Gold

As a young Scots boy, Andrew Carnegie came to America and started doing odd jobs.
He ended up as one of the largest steel manufacturers in the United States.At one time he had 43 millionaires working for him.

Several decades ago, a million dollars used to be a lot of money; even today it is a lot of money.
Someone asked Mr. Carnegie how he dealt with people?

Andrew Carnegie replied, "Dealing with people is like digging gold: When you go digging for an ounce of gold, you have to move tons of dirt to get an ounce of gold. But when you go digging, you don't go looking for the dirt, you go looking
for the gold."

Timeless Quotes Part-1

ABSENCE

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire. - François de La Rouchefoucauld

ACCIDENT

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident. - Thomas Edison

ACHIEVEMENT

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. - Frank A. Clark

You may be disappointed if you fail but you are doomed if you don't try. - Beverly Sills

Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so. - Margaret Thatcher

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. - John Wooden

ACTION
Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless. - Unknown

Action is the basis of competition, execution, and achievement. - Nicholas Pratt

ADAPTATION
If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile. - Indian proverb

You must shift your sail with the wind. - Italian proverb

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. - Latin proverb

ADVERSITY
Every adversity contains within it the seed of an equivalent or greater good. - Princess of Serendip

When one door of happiness closes another door opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. - Hellen Keller

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater one. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. - William Hazlitt

Never give up. Never, never, never, never give up. - Winston Churchill

He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great. - Herman Melville

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. - Bruce Barton

Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them. - Ethiopian proverb

The man who sold Hot Dogs

During the 1930s there was a man who lived by the side of the road and sold hot dogs. He was hard of hearing, so he had no radio. He had trouble with his eyes, so he read no newspapers. But he sold good hot dogs. He stood at the side of the road and cried: "Buy a hot dog, mister?” And people bought. He increased his meat and bun orders. He bought a bigger stove to take care of his trade.

Business was so good he brought his son home from college early to help him out. And his son said: "Father, haven't you been listening to the radio? Haven't you been reading the newspapers? The European situation is terrible. The domestic situation is worse."

The father thought to himself, "Well, my son's been to college, he reads the papers and he listens to the radio -- so he ought to know. So the father cut down his meat and bun orders, took down his signs, and no longer bothered to stand out on the highway to sell his hot dogs. And his hot dog sales fell almost overnight. The father said to the boy, "You're right, son, we certainly are in the middle of a great depression."

Believe in yourself

There may be days when you get up in the morning and things aren't the way you had hoped they would be.

That's when you have to tell yourself that things will get better.

There are times when people disappoint you and let you down.

But those are the times when you must remind yourself to trust your own judgments and opinions, to keep your life focused on believing in yourself.

There will be challenges to face and changes to make in your life, and it is up to you to accept them.

Constantly keep yourself headed in the right direction for you.

It may not be easy at times, but in those times of struggle you will find a stronger sense of who you are.

So when the days come that are filled with frustration and unexpected responsibilities, remember to believe in yourself and all you want your life to be.

Because the challenges and changes will only help you to find the goals that you know are meant to come true for you.

Keep Believing in Yourself.