Happy Thanksgiving!
Small business owners often get so caught up in their quest for growth, more revenue, and more profit; that sometimes they forget that all the success and money in the world is useless if they have nobody to share it with. If you lose the love of your spouse, children, and family along the way, you may get rich on the outside but you will be dirt poor on the inside. Thanksgiving is nearing and it is great that we get together with those we love and make extra efforts to be thankful.
However, we should not wait for one day each year to be thankful for our blessings. And yes, we all have blessing even in the most dire of circumstances. Sometimes we struggle to see them because we are so consumed with everything we don’t have or wish we had. It is a shame that we cast aside priceless gems that others would give anything to have. We chase and chase and chase…never taking the time to appreciate all that we have already been given.
Here are some terrific quotes to get you thinking. I will be on vacation for the next nine days, so my consecutive streak will come to an end. We will see you on the other side. Hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving!
- “The grass is not in fact always greener on the other side of the fence. Not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
- “The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.” ~ Anonymous
- “It is better to want what you have than to have what you want.” ~ Proverbs
- “If you want to know how rich you are, add up everything you have that money cannot buy and death cannot take away!” ~ Anonymous
- “The real measure of our wealth is how much we’d be worth if we lost all our money.” ~ J. H. Jowett
- “If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.’ ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- “Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have; what you are will show in what you do.” ~ Thomas Davidson
- “Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” ~ Margaret Lee Runbeck
- “The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” ~ Chalmers
- “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery
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