You can’t run from the wind.

You trim your sails,

face the music,

and keep going.   

Captain Christopher "Skipper" Sheldon, in the film "White Squall."

#run #wind #sails #music

You can count all the grains of sand on the beach,

and still find you're on the wrong beach.

                  Geoffrey Batrouney

#count #grains #sand #beach

Unless we change our direction,

we are likely to end up where we are headed.
Chinese Proverb

#KeyDirections #navigating #future

There are two things a person should never be angry at,

what they can help,

and what they cannot.

Plato

#anger #angry

The secret of happiness,
you see,
is not found in seeking more,
but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

Socrates

#moreorless #more #less

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

                     Isaac Asimov

#science #knowledge #society #wisdom

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

                        Peter F. Drucker  

#purpose #business #customer

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

                  Voltaire  

#perfect #good

🤔 The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

                        Vince Lombardi  

#success #work #dictionary

The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.

                          Albert Einstein  

#compoundinterest

The leader of the past knew how to tell.

The leader of the future will know how to ask.

                       Peter Drucker 

#future #leader

The competitive advantage of changing direction in a Small Business over a BIG BUSINESS, is like a Speed Boat turning compared to an AIRCRAFT CARRIER.

Lance Scoular 🔹️
The Savvy Navigator 🧭🌐

#smallbusiness #bigbusiness

Characteristics of Successful People

Audio Interview: Geoff Stone (1931-2015) discussed with @LanceScoular people he had met during his extensive career in business, television & radio

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Pt2 #OurBeliefSystems lnkd.in/f_363hB

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. 

           Warren Buffett

#complex #simple

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

                      Oprah Winfrey  

#adventure #live #life #dreams

The 8️⃣0️⃣/2️⃣0️⃣/3️⃣0️⃣ Rule of Thumb
The Pareto Principle extension...
by #LanceScoular The SavvyNavigator 🧭🌐

#simplesolutions #businessideas #basics
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The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential,

the greater your chance for success.

                     John Maxwell

#success #people #potential

The 🌈Rainbow of ❤️LOVE has 9 Facets

#love #patience #kindness

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

                     Dr. Linus Pauling  

#idea #ideas

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Chinese Proverb

#plant #tree

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

                     Jane Austen  

#plan  #book  #dishes

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

                               Dolly Parton  

#Storms #trees #roots

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

                            Warren Buffett  

#patience #vision

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#simplicity

Simple can be harder than complex.

You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains

                          Steve Jobs  

#simple #complex

"Significant competitive advantage lies with those organizations and individuals who anticipate well in turbulent times.” 

                         Peter Drucker

#competitiveadvantage

Service isn't a department.

It's a way of life.

                      Larry Taylor  

#service

Serendipity is a powerful process within social networking to help achieve your goals and objectives, whether business or personal.

                           Paul J. Lange

#serendipity

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

                             Immanuel Kant  

#science #knowledge #wisdom #life

Pessimists complain about the wind,
Optimists expect it to change;
a Realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

#pessimists #optimists #realist

Perseverance is not a long race;

it is many short races one after the other.

                     Walter Elliot  

#perseverance

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

                            John Maxwell  

#leader #vision

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Napoleon Hill

#patience #persistence #perspiration #success.

Patience is power.

Patience is not an absence of action;

rather it is timing;

it waits on the right time to act,

for the right principles

and in the right way.

                             Fulton J. Sheen

#patience #power #action #timing

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

                   Robert F. Kennedy  

#dare #fail #achieve #greatly

One thing every woman knows

but few men ever learn

is that there are times

when the only wise action

is not to act

but to wait.

               Robert A. Heinlein

#woman #man #action #wait #patience

Nothing is black or white.

Nelson Mandela

#black #white

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

Walter Anderson

#anxiety #action

No one dies wishing they had spent more time with their business.

Arthur Lipper III

#business

Never tell people how to do things.

Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

                  George S Patten

#ingenuity

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.

One helps you make a living and the other helps you make a life.

            Sandra Carey

#knowledge #wisdom #living #life

Never let your persistence and passion
turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

#persistence #passion #stubbornness #ignorance

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

                    Benjamin Franklin 

#tomorrow #today

🌐 Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world.

Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

                             Margaret Mead

#citizens  #change #world

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Mark Twain

#inventors #accident

Most people stumble over the truth, now and then,

but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on anyway.  

                       Winston Churchill

#people #stumble #truth

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

                          Henry Ford  

#solve #problems

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

                           Abraham Lincoln  

#happy

Many of the things you can count, don't count.

Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Albert Einstein

#can #cant #count

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin

#lost #time

Logic will get you from A to B.

Imagination will take you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

#logic #imagination

Lifelong learning is only part of the equation.

The critical part to complement lifelong learning is lifelong application.

Lance Scoular
The Savvy Navigator 🧭🌐

#learning #lifelonglearning #application

All things being equal, people will do business with and  refer business to, those people they know, like and trust.”

Bob Burg

#know #like #trust

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

Nelson Mandela

#life #watch #express #listen

Life is short,

art long,

opportunity fleeting,

experience deceptive,

judgment difficult.

                     Hippocrates  

#life #opportunity #experience #judgment

Life is a reciprocal exchange.

To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

#reciprocal #exchange #moveforward #giveback

Learn to say no to the good

so you can say yes to the best.

John C. Maxwell

#no #good #yes #best

Learn from the mistakes of others.

You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#learn #mistakes #live #long

🏊‍♂️ Leadership, like swimming,
cannot be learned by reading about
it.
Henry Mintzberg

#leadership #swimming

🪁 Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

                          Winston Churchill  

#altitude #strategy

Just remember,

when you should grab something, grab it;

when you should let go,

let go.

                                  Zig Ziglar  

#grab #letgo

Snowfalling at Crookwell, New South Wales, Australia 🇦🇺

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Lena Horne

#load #carry

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,

but even more to stand up to your friends.

                        J.K. Rowling

#courage #friends #enemies

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.

If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

                              Warren Buffett

#reputation #think #differently

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out

it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

                         Robert Service  

#mountain #grain #sand

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

#never #too #late

It is always your next move.

                         Napoleon Hill  

#next #move

Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest

but with the rustling of the breeze.

                                  Peter Drucker  

#innovation #opportunities #tempest #breeze

"The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived #faithfully a #hidden #life, and rest in #unvisited #tombs."

George Eliot

Middlemarch

📑👀🤔 Who likes processing documents?

Not I.

However, I quickly learned, that if you are involved in #InternationalTrade and #Transport, 🚢✈️🚛🚂📦📮 "you need to learn to #love❤️your #documents" 📃📜📄📑🤓."

@LanceScoular
The Savvy Navigator 🧭🌐
Founder of @KeyDirections

In the business world,

the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

                    Warren Buffett  

#business #world

🛩 I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. 🦷
🤔 What I can't understand is,

if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is❓️

                Paul Merton
#dentalrecords

If you're going through hell,

keep going.

                      Winston Churchill  

#challenges #dontgiveup #persevere