Personality Overview
Values being
created
"All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life
is to enjoy it."
Samuel Butler
"My
brain
it's my second favorite organ."
Woody Allen
Targeted market
"My interest is in the future
because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
Charles Kettering
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my
work... I want to achieve it through not dying."
Woody Allen
Brief history
"The suspicious parent makes an artful child."
Thomas G. Halliburton
"Life is a tragedy
for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."
Jean de la Bruyere
"And my parents
finally realize that I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: they
rent out my room."
Woody Allen
Milestones completed and future plans
"Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive."
Elber Hubbard
"If you want to make God laugh, tell him your
future plans."
Woody Allen
Self-Management Skills
"All you need in this life is
ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."
Mark Twain
"If you think you are too small
to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito."
Unknown
"Success is simply a matter of
luck. Ask any failure."
Earl Wilson
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try
again. Then give up. There's no use in being a damn fool about it."
W.C. Fields
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist
everything except temptation."
Oscar Wilde
"Efficiency is intelligent laziness."
David Dunham
"I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details."
Albert Einstein
Growth Strategy
Product
"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.."
Woody Allen
Operational plan
"If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work
is X; Y is play; and Z is keeping your mouth shut."
Albert Einstein
"I like work; it fascinates me. I can
sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of
getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart."
Jerome Klapka Jerome
"I like nonsense - it wakes up
the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of
looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope... and that enables you to
laugh at all of life's realities."
Dr. Seuss
"Everyone needs a warm personal
enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind."
Gene Fowler
"My advice to you is get married:
if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."
Socrates
Development risk
"The follies which a man regrets
most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity."
Helen Rowland
"Success is like dealing with
your kid or teaching your wife to drive. Sooner or later you'll end up in the
police station."
Fred Allen
Risk management strategy
"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."
Oscar Wilde
"My reputation grows with every failure."
George Bernard Shaw
Growth risk
"He was so tall that I was not sure he had a
face."
Mark Twain
"Success is the one unpardonable
sin against one's fellows." Ambrose Bierce
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his
life to become well-known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."
Fred Allen
Risk management strategy
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Other risks
"I am not young enough to know everything."
Oscar
Wilde
"Be careful about reading health
books. You may die of a misprint.."
Mark Twain
Risk management strategy
"Life is far too important a
thing ever to talk seriously about."
Oscar Wilde
Markets
Analysis
"Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to
go through hell to get it." Don
Marquis
"The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when
opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers."
Walter Percy Chrysler
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does.
That's his."
Oscar Wilde
"The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good." Polish Proverb
"Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife."
Groucho
Marx
"A
thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
Oscar
Wilde
Competition
"I have the simplest tastes. I am
always satisfied with the best."
Oscar Wilde
"Everybody loves success, but they hate successful
people."
John McEnroe
Marketing strategy
"One
should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."
Oscar
Wilde
"Don't be so humble you are not
that great." Golda Meir
"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you
very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding
stupidity of optimism."
Oscar Wilde
Funds Required and Uses
"It is better to have a permanent income than
to be fascinating."
Oscar Wilde
"If youre given a choice between money and sex
appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex
appeal."
Katharine Hepburn
"The only thing that hurts more than paying an
income tax is not having to pay an income tax."
Lord Thomas Robert Dewar
Financial Projections
"When I was young I thought that money was the most
important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is."
Oscar Wilde
"More and more these days I find myself
pondering how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits."
John Nelson
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