“There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west –
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.”
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“In times of stress, be bold and valiant.”
– Horace

“The man who doesn’t relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
– Thoreau

“You must sleep some time between lunch and dinner, and no half-way measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That’s what I always do. Don’t think you will be doing less work because you sleep during the day. That’s a foolish notion held by people who have no imagination. You will be able to accomplish more. You get two days in one – well, at least one and a half, I’m sure. When the war started, I had to sleep during the day because that was the only way I could cope with my responsibilities.”
– Winston Churchill

Time management for entrepreneurs:

“You must systematically, agressively divest yourself of those activities you do not do well, do not do happily, or find routine, so as to systematically invest your time (and talent, knowledge, know-how, and other resources) in those things you do extraordionarily well, enjoy doing, and find intellectually stimulating.”
– Dan Kennedy

If I’m slinging other people’s wisdom today, here’s the best business quote I’ve come across in ages:

“It doesn’t matter what your competitors are doing. The only thing that matters is if they are keeping you from getting to your client.”
— Gerry Lemberg (investor in Apple, Intel & Oracle)

As it’s his birthday today:

“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten,
either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing. ”
– Ben Franklin

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
– Thornton Wilder