I love this quote from Dustin Hoffman which I read in Success Magazine:

“There’s a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don’t understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don’t understand boredom.”

I think this attitude is shared by most small business owners. The ones I meet always have something to talk about but I can’t ever remember a small business owner telling me they were bored. This probably explains why I love doing what I do.

What do you think? Do you understand boredom?

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“The emotional labor of engaging with the work and increasing the energy in the room is precisely what you sell. So sell it.”

Seth Godin – via his blog post

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought”

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"Give yourself something to work toward – constantly."

- Mary Kay Ash

"The formula for success is quite simple: double your rate of failure."

- Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (founder of IBM)

"A goal is a dream with a deadline"

- Napoleon Hill

"The art of marketing is not finding more money to do more marketing. It’s figuring out how to tell a story that spreads with the resources you’ve got."

Seth Godin – as posted on his blog

"Quality is not the absence of defects as defined by management, but the presence of value as defined by customers."

              – a sign in the Baldridge National Quality Award-winning Milliken & Company