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Lost Lost MarblesMarbles
Part IPart IThe Ultimate PowerPoint
“Swipe” Filefor Business Executives
by Laura Bergells
Small CompanySmall Company
The nice thing about working in a small
company is that when I don’t know what I’m doing, at least my co-
workers and clients do.
Mouth and EarsMouth and Ears
Don’t you hate it when people want to
talk about themselves when you want to talk
about yourself?
Mouth and EarsMouth and Ears
A good listener is not only popular, but after a while, she actually knows something.
Mouth and EarsMouth and Ears
The tongue is only a few inches from the brain, but to hear
some people talk, you’d think the two were miles apart.
Mouth and EarsMouth and Ears
There’s nothing wrong with having nothing to
say, as long as you don’t say it out loud.
Press ConferencesPress Conferences
If you make three new product announcements a day, you won’t remember them next
week.
Neither will your customers.
Infinite PossibilitiesInfinite Possibilities
I can accept finite disappointment, but I
won’t lose infinite hope.
Speed of LightSpeed of Light
Einstein said that nothing was faster than the speed of light, but he’s
wrong. My imagination is much faster than the speed of light. For example, I just imagined traveling to Pluto and back. If I took a space ship that could
travel at the speed of light, that would take centuries.
Speed of LightSpeed of Light
Also, if Energy equals mass times the Speed of Light Squared, this
says that the speed of light can be squared. That’s faster than the
speed of light, and I just imagined that, too!
New IdeasNew Ideas
Our ideas are like children – no matter how much you admire somebody else’s,
you still love your own the best.
New IdeasNew Ideas
An optimist takes the cold water thrown on new ideas,
heats it with enthusiasm and uses the steam to push
them ahead.
Generation GapGeneration Gap
As we grow older, our children will eventually
end up on the same side of the generation gap.
Gen GapGen Gap
You’ve reached middle age when all you exercise is
caution. And you choose your cereal for the fiber instead of
the toy.
MaturityMaturity
Maturity begins when you’re content to feel right about something without feeling the need to prove
someone else wrong.
shipsships
All the water in the world could not sink a ship unless it got inside. In the same way, all the evil in the world could never sink your soul
unless you let it in.
FrustrationFrustration
It’s frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody
asks you the questions.
DietDiet
Life can be a constant battle between carrots and chocolate, or
you can figure out how you can live with the two in harmony.
DietDiet
My fortune cookie mentioned a great diet. It read “eat all you
can, but only use one chopstick.”
KarmaKarma
The rain falls on the just and the unjust. But mostly on the just, because the unjust have stolen
their umbrellas.
RetirementRetirement
According to the latest figures, if you retired today, you could live
very comfortably until 3 p.m. tomorrow.
Questions and AnswersQuestions and Answers
You may not know all the answers, but you probably won’t be asked
all the questions.
World PeaceWorld Peace
It doesn’t take monumental acts to make the world a better place. It
can be as easy as letting someone ahead of you in the
lunch line.
Rock BottomRock Bottom
Even though I’m taking it “one day at a time”…
it’s about 24 more hours than I can take right now.
Rock BottomRock Bottom
When things are bad, I can take comfort in the thought that they can always get worse. And when things get worse, I find hope in the idea that things are so bad
they have to get better.
Co-DependencyCo-Dependency
I’m better than I was, but not quite so good as I was before I got
worse.
HopeHope
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but
the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it
turns out.
GRACEGRACE
Tact is not only saying the right thing at the right time, but also to
leave unsaid the wrong thing a tempting moment.
ShoutingShouting
Shouting and screaming to get people to perform is like using
the horn to steer your car.
Self-DeprecationSelf-Deprecation
Only some people learn by other people’s mistakes. The rest of us
actually have to be the other people.
Self DepreciationSelf Depreciation
I’m at this awkward age where I’m too old to say something cute
and too young to say something sensible.
How to be HappyHow to be Happy
Three essentials for happiness:
1. Something to do, 2. Someone to love,
3. Something to hope for.
AdviceAdvice
If it’s free; it’s advice. If you pay for it, it’s consulting. If you can use either one, it’s a
miracle!
HumilityHumility
I have a friend who tells me that he’s a humble man. I told him
that the nature of humility dictates that can’t say that and
have it be true!
DecemberDecember
We’re going to celebrate a traditional American holiday – the tree comes from Canada, the ornaments from Taiwan, the lights from China, the food from Italy and the idea from
Israel and Bethlehem.
Seasonal - JanuarySeasonal - January
If in the last year you haven’t discarded a major opinion or
acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
What Dead People SayWhat Dead People Say
The greatest danger for most of usis not that our aim is too high and we
miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo
E-CommerceE-Commerce
eCommerce is not about technology! It is about
relationships, partnerships, and communications, made possible
by technology.
E-CommerceE-Commerce
I guess people thought the phone and the fax machine were all about technology when they
were introduced into businesses, too.
What Dead People SayWhat Dead People SayThere is no use trying,” said Alice. “One can’t
believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,”
said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six
impossible things before breakfast.”Lewis Carroll