Morning Briefings

Success is not forever and failure isn’t fatal.

– Ken Blanchard
The Heart of a Leader

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives; do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies; succeed anyway.

– Kent M. Keith
Anyway–The Paradoxical Commandments: Finding Personal Meaning in a Crazy World

Our dragons are our fears: our daily stalkers, our night sweats. Fear of the unknown. Fear of failing. Fear of starting something new and not finishing. Again. Or the real fear, the one that send shivers up our spines: the fear of succeeding and facing the changes that will bring. We may not be happy with the way we are living now, but at least it’s safely familiar.

– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Simple Abundance

If America is to rediscover its mojo and grow its way out of debt and deficits–and not just pin the tail on the rich, or inflate it all away–it needs to liberate the new generation of Steve Jobses. Today, that challenge seems daunting. But the 1970s, the decade of Apple’s birth, offers hope that hardy seeds can take root in bad climates.

– Rich Karlgaard, The Wall Street Journal
Apple to the Rescue?

Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.

– Proverbs 16:3

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

– Booker T. Washington

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives; do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies; succeed anyway.

– Kent M. Keith
Anyway–The Paradoxical Commandments: Finding Personal Meaning in a Crazy World

When God delays in prospering our businesses or promoting our newest product, it is so that we may die to our own ideas, our own egos. After the delay, we often experience the joy of experiencing God’s best for us.

– Corey Cleek
Devotional Ventures: 60 Inspiring Devotions by Business Professionals by Business Professionals

I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

– Abraham Lincoln

When you find a vocation, embrace it with your whole heart. Few people are so lucky. They begin their search for work with an eye to the wrong prize, so when they succeed they win something of little value. They gain money or prestige, but they lose their hearts. Eventually, their days become nothing more than a commodity they exchange for money and they begin to shrivel and die.

– Kent Nerburn
Letters to My Son: A Father’s Wisdom on Manhood, Life and Love