L'optimisme, ce n'est pas le refus de voir ce qui ne va pas, c'est le désir de ne pas s'y attarder. // Donne moi le courage de changer les choses que je peux changer, la sérénité d'accepter celles que je ne peux pas changer, et la sagesse de distinguer entre les deux. (Marc Aurèle) // Don't raise your voice; improve your argument. (Desmond Tutu) // Be the change you want to see in the world. (Gandhi)

5.11.13

Pressés comme des citrons, 
jetés comme des kleenex ... 
 (entendu sur Europe 1 ce matin)

It’s much easier to double your business by doubling your conversion rate than by doubling your traffic.
  (Jeff Eisenberg) 
Trying to increase sales simply by driving more traffic to a website with a poor customer conversion rate is like trying to keep a leaky bucket full by adding more water instead of plugging the holes.
  (Bryan Eisenberg, Call to Action)

4.11.13

HIPPO ? Highest Paid Persons Opinion, 
We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance  
    (Benjamin Disraeli) #linkedin

3.11.13

18 people were killed in Jackson that night. 10 white and 8 black. 
I don't think God has color in mind when he sets a tornado loose.
  (Aibileen Clark, in The Help / La couleur des sentiments)


If you keep your food in refregerator, 
            your clothes in a closet, 
If you have a bed to sleep in, 
and a roof over your head, 
You are richer than 75% of world population.
Appreciate what you have !


Winning is not everything but losing is hell !
(la loi d'airain du clan Kennedy, in "On a tiré sur le Président" de Philippe Labro)
Concision in style, 
precision in thought, 
decision in life.
  (Victor Hugo)

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
   (Robert H. Schuller)

How to make smarter decision ? 


The way is not the sky. 
The way is in the heart. 

2.11.13

Morano devrait lire Frederic Dard : 
"Traiter son prochain de con n’est pas un outrage, c’est un diagnostic" 
  (Stéphane Guillon)

By December it had become clear that Job's iCEO status had evolved from interim to indefinite.
(see also http://beariscool.blogspot.fr/2013/10/thats-why-i-dropped-interim-from-my.html#links)


There is always a way. 

If we wait until we're ready
we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

1.11.13

Il ne faut pas laisser aux singes la gestion des "peanuts"
(...)
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. 
Winners visualize the rewards of success. 
(William S. Gilbert)

We have a "strategic plan". 
It's called doing things. 
(Herb Kelleher) #linkedin