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Quote – The more business a man has to do

  • Time and Money

The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish; for he learns to economize his time.

— Judge Hale

Poetry – Dawn

  • Dawn

So begins the day,
Solid, chill, and gray,
But my heart will wake
Happy for your sake;
No more tossed and wild,
Singing like a child,
Quiet as a flower
In this first gray hour.

So my heart will wake
Happy, for your sake.

— Frances Darwin Cornford

Quote – Punctuality

  • Punctuality

Punctuality is the soul of business.

— Proverb

Quote – Law of Triviality

  • Law of Triviality

The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum [of money] involved.

— Cyril Northcote Parkinson

Poetry – Invictus

  • Indomitable

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

— William Ernest Henley

Quote – A Good-Hearted Person

  • Good-Hearted

The effect of one good-hearted person is incalculable.

— OscarArias

The Law of Power

  • The Law of Power

The Law

The fundamental law of power is that it is situational, multifaceted, dynamic, and perishable.

Power is Situational

Power is without a doubt situational, a person who is very politically powerful, but having no wilderness knowledge or skills, find themselves alone in the middle will have less ability to save themselves, than an experienced woodsman.

Power is Multifaceted

Power has many attributes (social influence, mental reference, innate ability, and situation), which aggregate to provide the total of your power at in given time and in any given situation

Power is Dynamic

As a person’s situation changes, their ability to influence the situation can be increased, decreased, and/or lost.  Also, facets of power are not static but are morphed by change.

Power is Perishable

A person can, through inaction, lose the ability to influence a situation forever.