Morning Briefings

It is not what you do for your children but what you taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

– Ann Landers

The will of God is not to send us the disaster, but to send us the disaster to overcome.

–
Rabbi Kushner

DFID, the UK Government aid organization, launched a new program to promote entrepreneurs across Nigeria, India, Bangladesh, Zambia, and Malawi and help companies develop business models that benefit the poor. Large companies are encouraged to work with smaller ones to establish their distribution network. An example is Coca Cola. More than 2,600 small distribution businesses have been formed, creating direct employment for more than 12,000 people and generating more than $500 million in revenues throughout East Africa.

– Andreas Widmer
Making Business Work for the Poor

Taken as a whole, Proverbs 16:3 (Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed) is telling us that when we genuinely devote our work to the real Boss, over time, God will transform our mindset. He’ll change the way we view management and He’ll inoculate us from compromising His will on the job.

– Michael A. Zigarelli
Management by Proverbs

You in the armed forces have the difficult task of keeping ‘chins up’ when you know that separation from friends and loved ones, dangers of sea, air and land and death itself must be faced. In a way, though, the difference between this new life and the old is only one of degrees, not of kind; and successful service anywhere requires faith.

– Elam J. Anderson, former President, University of Redlands
Strength for Service to God and Country

The question isn’t did you fail, but did you pick yourself up and move ahead. And there is one other little question ‘Did you collaborate in your own defeat?’ A lot of people do. Learn not to.

– John Gardner
from a 1993 speech

When obscurity pollutes someone’s communication, it’s often because the author’s goal is to impress and not to inform. The low road to impressing an audience is to make them feel inferior, by using words they won’t understand.

– Brian Fugere, Chelsea Hardaway, and Jon Warshawsky
Why Business People Speak Like Idiots: A Bullfighter’s Guide

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

– John D. Rockefeller

Principle One: Devote Your Work to the Real Boss. All of the work that we do in life, indeed every endeavor we pursue, is ultimately to be performed for the glory of God.

– Michael A. Zigarelli
Management by Proverbs

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

– Abraham Lincoln