Jul
30th

Epic Customer Service Quotes

• If we don’t take care of our customers, someone else will. – Unknown
• If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends. – Jeff Bezos
• You’ll never have a product or price advantage again. They can be easily duplicated, but a strong customer service culture can’t be copied. – Jerry Fritz
• The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. – Socrates
• Here is a simple but powerful rule – always give people more than what they expect to get. – Nelson Boswell

Epic Inspiration Quotes

• You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. – Jack London
• I buy when other people are selling. – J. Paul Getty
• Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind, than in the one where they sprung up. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Try and fail, but don’t fail to try. – Stephen Kaggwa
• Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true. – Unknown

Epic Innovation Quotes

• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. – Steve Jobs
• Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow. – William Pollard
• The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation. – Robert Iger
• The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B. – James Yorke
• We are always saying to ourselves.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough. In fact, the way software works.. so long as you are using your existing software.. you don’t pay us anything at all. So we’re only paid for breakthroughs. – Bill Gates

Epic Fearlessness Quotes

• Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. – Les Brown
• The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. – Sven Goran Eriksson
• The key to change… is to let go of fear. – Roseanne Cash
• Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. – Mahatma Gandhi
• Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.  – Brendan Francis

Epic Empire Building Quotes

• It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. – Walt Disney
• The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. – Winston Churchill
• Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. – Michael Jordan
• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead
• An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war. – Charles de Montesquieu

Epic ‘The Good Life’ Quotes

• The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. – Bertrand Russell
• Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. – Garrison Keillor
• A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. – Henry Ford
• There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why. – William Barclay
• There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. – Annie Dillard

Epic Business Savvy Quotes

• If you did not look after today’s business then you might as well forget about tomorrow – Isaac Mophatlane
• Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches – Napoleon Hill
• It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change – Charles Darwin
• Hire character.  Train skill – Peter Schultz
• What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.- Oprah Winfrey

Epic Travel Quotes

• The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.  – St. Augustine
• I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.  – Mark Twain
• When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money.  Then take half the clothes and twice the money.  – Susan Heller
• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.  Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.  – Mark Twain
• Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. – Seneca

Epic Life Quotes

These are a selection of quotes from bloggers you may know…

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Dec
27th

Things on the list that caught my eye:

99. The Wonder Girls – Being a huge K-Pop fan, I tripped when I saw the Wonder Girls on the list. If I were 12 years old, I’d be totally all over those girls… although, I only have room for Korean boyband-teenybopper’ing at my ripe age of 22 right now.

74. Recycling Gray Water – Water is probably going to cost more than gas in the future.

65. Obesogens – “chemical compounds in the environment—notably from plastics—that can turn developing cells into fat cells. These stay with a child for life, making weight loss difficult.” Doesn’t that just scare you? We’re creating such a harmful and dangerous world for our children.

55. Lost Series Finale – Reminds me that I’ve gotta start a countdown until the season ends so I can officially begin my couch-potatoe-ing. Yay!

6. Augmented Reality – “…the superimposing of digital information over physical reality, will make its way into the hands of mass audiences. AR smartphone apps can show where subway entrances are located, reveal prices of nearby homes or label landmarks for tourists. Marketers are getting in on the act, including GE and HP, whose AR game Roku’s Reward has players chase virtual images layered over reality on a phone’s screen.”

5. Asia’s Widening Income Gap – This just makes me sad. Forgot what we were talking about this morning, but boyfriend said: “Guess what makes them rich?! The poor people!!” So true.

Sony, for instance, predicts that 3D sets will compose 30 to 50 percent of all the TVs it sells in its 2012 fiscal year. [source]

1. 3D at Home – Boyfriend and I were talking about this earlier this year and how cool would that be? They’re going to be super expensive when they first come out but prices will probably drop like crazy after the 5 or so years when they start producing something cooler like TV that emits smells… WHEN YOU WANT IT TO (Food Channel.. mmmm).

Here is the complete list of 100 Things to Watch in 2010.

Sep
1st

This is a an excerpt of a great entry about Marie Antoinette’s reputation from one of my favorite blogs, Tea at the Trianon:

She is the queen who danced while the people starved; who spent extravagantly on clothes and jewels without a thought for her subjects’ plight. Such is the distorted but widespread view of Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France (1755-1793), wife of King Louis XVI. The recent Coppola film has further damaged the image of the much-maligned, beautiful and charming Austrian archduchess, sent to France at age fourteen to marry the fifteen-year-old Dauphin. Sadly, the picture many people now have of Marie-Antoinette is of her running through Versailles with a glass of champagne in her hand, eating bonbons all day long, and rolling in the bushes with a lover…

Click here to read the rest of the article.

Apr
27th

If you can identify at least 25 people, then you are very cultivated
(without Googling/researching/asking!!)

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Apr
11th

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs:
   • Respect for self
   • Respect for others
   • Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

[via owenkelly.net]

This was most likely not written by the Dalai Lama but they are great 18 rules to live by.