My Favorite Quotes document is in its tenth year of growth. Unsurprisingly, the first and second entries are my first and second favorites; they both pack a ton of practical guidance into just a few brief words . . .
The best advice is the first entry, which comes to us from the famous management thinker Peter F. Drucker. It is a perfect corrollary to the rule that life is a series of choices:
Choose on the basis of “what is right,” not “who is right.”
Think about that one for a minute. Then contrast it with the wide variety of approaches taken by the wide variety of weblogs you've visited. Sheds an interesting light on things, doesn't it?
The second-best comes to us from a ranch hand tour guide somewhere in Colorado, sometime in the late '90s. He dispensed this wisdom to a group of us on a bus headed for an afternoon of fun at his employer's ranch:
When you're wearin' five-buckle boots, don't stand in six-buckle manure.
I believe that one should be self-explanatory.
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