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LEADERSHIP
WORD OF THE WEEK:
INITIATIVE
LEADERSHIP
QUOTES:
"Avoid the
crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player,
not the chess piece." Ralph Charell
"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!" Jonathan
Winters
"No plan is worth the paper it is printed on unless it starts
you doing something." Thomas Carlyle
"Deadlines are the mothers of invention." John M.
Shanahan
"If you want to make progress you have to take risks."
John Maxwell
"It is always your next move." Napoleon Hill
"In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants
to go, and gets up, and goes." John Erksine
"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."
Henri Bergson
HISTORICAL PROFILE
FOUNDING FATHERS
I can never study the birth of our great country without
marveling at the initiative shown by our Founding Fathers.
These men were from vastly different socio-economic
backgrounds. Their education varied as did their viewpoints
on many issues. But there is one thread that ran
consistently among them...they were men of great initiative.
Listen to their thoughts on initiative.
- "Do not live useless and die contemptible."
John Witherspoon
- "I emerged from the poverty and obscurity to attain a degree of
reputation in the world." Benjamin Franklin in his autobiography
- "It is wonderful how much may be done if we are constantly
doing." Thomas Jefferson writing to his daughter
- "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander Time; for that's the
stuff life is made of." Benjamin Franklin
- "System in all things must be aimed at; for in execution, it
renders every thing more easy." George Washington
- "I shall arouse myself ere long I believe, and exert an
Industry, a Frugality, a hard Labour, that will serve my family,
if I can't serve my Country." John Adams to his wife Abagail
SCRIPTURE
Acts 11:29
Then the disciples, every man according to his ability,
determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in
Judaea: 30Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the
hands of Barnabas and Saul.
"Do not let the current economic climate paralyze your faith.
Take the initiative this week on one of your projects." JAS
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