Archive for October, 2007
Next time you shave…
At the last turn of the century, King Gillette founded what would become a corporate giant, based on a simple yet essential invention: the safety razor with disposable blades.
Although his ancestors came to Massachusetts from England in 1630, King Camp Gillette was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in 1855. His father was a sometime [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Motivation Concepts & Definitions
noun:
Something that encourages: encouragement, inspiration, stimulation. See help/harm/harmless.
Something that causes and encourages a given response: encouragement, fillip, impetus, impulse, incentive, inducement, prod, push, spur, stimulant, stimulation, stimulator, stimulus. See cause/effect.
A basis for an action or a decision: cause, ground (often used in plural), motive, reason, spring. See start/end.
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BRITANNICA ENCYCLOPEDIA
Factors within a human being or animal [...]
Failure list of the famous
Einstein was 4 years old before he could speak.
Iassc Newton did poorly in grade school and was considered “unpromising.”
When Thomas Edison was a youngster, his teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything. He was counseled to go into a field where he might succeed by virtue of his pleasant personality.
F.W. Woolworth got [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Something Good
“You must be the change you want to see in the world” – Gandhi
“This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone [...]
It is a Challenge to Succeed – Article by Jim Rohn
It is a challenge to succeed. If it were not, I’m sure more people would be successful, but for every person who is enjoying the fruit from the tree of success, many more are examining the roots. They are trying to figure it all out. They are mystified and perplexed by what seems to be [...]
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