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“Someone receives a promotion, gets an important assignment, makes a major discovery, or moves into the president's office. ''He's lucky',' an envious person remarks. ''He gets the breaks; they're always in his favor'.' In reality, luck or the breaks of life had little or nothing to do with it. So-called ''luck'' usually is found at the exact point where preparation meets opportunity. For a time, an individual may get ahead by ''pull',' but eventually someone with push will displace him. Success is not due to a fortuitous concourse of stars at our birth, but to a steady trail of sparks from the grindstone of hard work each day.”
Kenneth Hildebrand
“Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.”
Henry L. Doherty
“'Bewitched' does not promote Satanism”
Nancy Cartwright
“The only risk of failure is promotion.”
Scott Adams
“Without promotion something terrible happens... Nothing!”
P.T. Barnum
“All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.”
John Stuart Mill
“Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.”
William Randolph Hearst
“There are no conflicts which cannot be resolved unless the true promoters of them remain hidden.”
L. Ron Hubbard
“They said this mystery never shall cease: the priest promotes war, and the soldier peace”
William Blake
