Weather forecasters tell us every day how to cope with the next day's climate. Lately, the weather has made it pretty hard to survive. Between the 5.8 earthquake felt in 25 states on the east coast and then Hurricane Irene a week later, the business of survival got rocky. The stock market is attempting to deal with the fallout, but who knows when all the fallout will be felt.
As business people, each of us needs to create a plan to "weather" our own impact. Here are some personal thoughts to ponder.
• Our greatest opportunities for advancing productivity and improving living standards are to be found in the field of human relationships. Having achieved a better understanding of each other and their common responsibility to consumers and investors, both management and labor should do all in their power to educate the American public to understanding of the simple economic facts that underlie our industrial and business relationships. In other words don't let fear be your beacon, only your warning light.
• The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty and love do not require coupons.
• Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious.
• Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
• When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
• You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.
• There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and, second, for poor men to know how rich men work.
• There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
• There are two ways to interest a man or arouse his curiosity. One is to tell him something that he didn't know. The other is to remind him of something he has forgotten.
• Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.
• Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world call wisdom.
• Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.
As business people, each of us needs to create a plan to "weather" our own impact. Here are some personal thoughts to ponder.
• Our greatest opportunities for advancing productivity and improving living standards are to be found in the field of human relationships. Having achieved a better understanding of each other and their common responsibility to consumers and investors, both management and labor should do all in their power to educate the American public to understanding of the simple economic facts that underlie our industrial and business relationships. In other words don't let fear be your beacon, only your warning light.
• The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty and love do not require coupons.
• Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious.
• Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
• When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
• You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.
• There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and, second, for poor men to know how rich men work.
• There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
• There are two ways to interest a man or arouse his curiosity. One is to tell him something that he didn't know. The other is to remind him of something he has forgotten.
• Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.
• Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world call wisdom.
• Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.