Think about it

"You'll never regret what you couldn't afford"

- anon

Starting over...........

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

~Maria Robinson~

Jim Ziegler

"I'm where I am because I'm willing to do things others are not willing to do to get what they say they want"

- Jim Ziegler

The Hansel & Gretal approach

"Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson - US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

Learning is not the same as doing

'The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.'

- Marquis De Vauvenargues

Share your ideas

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas"

- George Bernard Shaw

Acting

“Acting is ninety-nine percent perspiration and one percent talent.
But that talent had better be good.”

- Charlie Chaplin

You've more chance achieving a goal if you're clear as to what it is

'If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.'

- Lawrence J. Peter

Trumpeting your success

"Unless you blow your own trumpet there is no music"

-Digby Jones (attrib)

"He who blows his own trumpet is usually a soloist"

- anon

Don't Quit

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh

When care is pressing you down a bit
Rest, you must - but don't you quit
Life is queer with its twists and turns
As everyone of us sometimes learns

And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out
Don't give up, though the pace seems slow
You might succeed with another blow

Success is failure turned inside out, the silver tint of the clouds of doubt
And you never can tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems so far
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit
It's when things seem worst, That you MUST NOT QUIT!

by Quinton Howell

Problems

"The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destroy ones spirit by worrying about them too far in advance."

Cicero, Imperium by Robert Harris

It is not the critic who counts:

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt 1858 - 1919

This explains it

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
- PJ Plauger

In July 2007 I wrote a four page leading Comment article for Taxation magazine in which I explained why, after 25 years and after arguably reaching the top of my profession, I gave up giving tax advice.