The Little Red Book of Wisdom by Mark Demoss
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is an excellent book to learn practical wisdom from a Godly man. The book is written from a Biblical Worldview. I highly recommend this book.
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Here are several great quotes from the book:
Knowledge
is horizontal, but wisdom is vertical – it comes down from above. p. xv
The
secret of success is constancy to purpose. – Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of
Beaconsfield p. 7
Walt
Disney used to advise people to “find a job that you like so much that you’d do
it without compensation; then do it so well that people will pay you to
continue.” p. 9
You
must do the thing you think you cannot do. ~Eleanor Roosevelt p. 15
Less
is more. – Robert Browning, Andrea del Sarto p.
22
I
have yet to see the company fail that promises less and delivers more. p. 25
Great
leaders are first of all great servants—and that great service is modest,
understated in speech and action. pp. 28-29
The significant problems we face in life cannot be solved
at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. ~Albert Einstein
p. 30
To
send a letter is a good way to move somewhere without moving anything but your
heart. ~Phyllis Theroux p. 36
Technology
has kind of turned the tables on us. We move to its speed and its rhythm. ~Carl
Honore p. 47
Honesty’s
the best policy. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote p. 56
You
can buy a person’s hands but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his
enthusiasm is, his loyalty is. ~Stephen Covey p. 62
Einstein
once said: “a person doesn’t so much need rest as variety.” p. 64
All
honest work glorifies God. p. 66
People
have an easier time serving a leader who is wholeheartedly serving them. p. 67
Everything
you do or say is public relations. ~Anonymous p. 70
Do
what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their
friends. ~Walt Disney p. 76
I
teach my children that words have powers. “Stupid” and “shut up,” for instance,
close doors. “Please” and “thank you” open them. p. 79
Small
things often make the biggest impact—thinking like a customer, admitting to not
knowing everything, asking for help. Just take a look around then join the
minority who understand and practice these simple principles. p. 82
Most
human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
~Aldous Huxley p. 85
“It should be our rule never to see the
face of men before first seeing the face of God.” ~Spurgeon. p. 92
We
don’t accomplish anything in this world alone…and whatever happens is the
result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual
threads from one to another that creates something. ~Sandra Day O’Connor p. 98
Always do right. It will gratify some people and
astonish the rest. ~Mark Twain p.
104
Integrity
is not what we do when it serves us. It is who we are in the dark and how we
treat people when it makes no difference to us. p. 111
Knowledge
in youth is wisdom in age. ~Proverb p. 120
A
man of knowledge uses words with restraint…Even a fool is thought wise if he
keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue. ~King Solomon, The book of
Proverbs. p. 130
There’s
one thing to be said about inviting trouble: it generally accepts. ~May Maloo
p. 135
The
bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left
undone. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe p. 142
One
of the reasons I don’t drink is that I want to know when I’m having a good time.
~Lady Astor p. 148
Books
are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature
dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. ~Barbara W.
Tuchman p. 154
“You
will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people
you meet and the books you read.”
~Charles “Tremendous” Jones p. 155
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