Something To Think About Archive

Henry Ford believed that “Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.”

Columnist Erma Bombeck advised us that when at a low point, “Tell yourself, ‘I’m not a failure. I failed at something.’ There’s a big difference.” noted Bombeck.

As organizational theorist Myron Tribus once noted: “You can manage what you do not understand; but you cannot lead it.”

According to Brigadier General Hugh C. Cameron, “Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.”

Journalist Wilma Askinas wrote: “There is no better measure of a person than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.”

The problem with assuming that tariffs on foreign made cars will bring back American manufacturing from Mexico and Canada is this: Its costs $6 an hour to make a car in Mexico. It costs $40 an hour to build a car in Canada. And, thanks to the Administration’s new best friend, the UAW, it costs $70 an hour in labor to build a car here. That and the fact that 60% of the parts that go into the final product come from foreign countries, primarily Mexico and Canada. Bringing those jobs back to the U.S. is next to impossible.

Mark Twain — ‘Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.’

Holocaust survivor Corrie ten Boom claimed that “Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.”

To paraphrase Norman Mailer: You don’t really know someone until you meet them in court.

According to author Harper Lee, “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”

John D. Rockefeller said, “I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”

The Trump Administration deserves criticism for inadvertently including the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic on the group chat regarding possible military strike details. Clearly a rookie mistake by national security advisor Mike Waltz that should never have happened, especially the use of a commercial app on personal phones for national-security conversations. But the real question is: If this was such an egregious breach of national security, why, then, did the Atlantic publish the entire meeting verbatim? THAT is the real breach of security. They could have simply reported on the mistake, kept the details private, and not put U.S. assets at risk.

General Douglas MacArthur believed that “The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.”

Retired Air Force Lt Colonel David Dale advice is that “No matter your role in life, find your mountain and begin the climb.”

As Lucille Ball once noted, “Remember that there are practically no “overnight” successes.”

According to Andrew Jackson: “One man with courage makes a majority.”

Teddy Roosevelt believed that “The purpose of life is to live it, to take the experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

The income tax has been called “The fine you pay for being productive.”

According to Coach Dean Smith, the winningest coach in NCAA tournament history: “If you make every game a life and death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot.”

World War I pilot and Ace Eddie Rickenbacker believed that “There can be no courage unless you’re scared.”