"Some leaders expect the team to read their minds on priorities, so they never provide the written and verbal guidance that we all need to feel we are contributing. Others can be heard shouting new priorities on an hourly basis. Both habits are very demotivating."

“I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.”

“My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.”

“Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six.”

Source : "Attention Scum!", Episode 1, 2001.

“Work honestly and build, build, build. That's all I can tell you,”

Source : "J.R. Simplot: What I've Learned" by Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. May 28, 2008.

“Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything.”

“We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.”

“The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives - with accrued interest - in the mature years.”

Source : Mary Ellen Snodgrass (1992). “Late Achievers: Famous People who Succeeded Late in Life”, Libraries Unltd Incorporated

“Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.”