No pretendamos que las cosas cambien si siempre hacemos lo mismo. La crisis es la mejor bendición que puede sucederle a personas y a países, porque la crisis trae progreso. La creatividad nace de la angustia como el día nace de la noche oscura. Es en la crisis que nace la inventiva, los descubrimientos y las grandes estrategias. Quien supera la crisis se supera a si mismo sin quedar "superado".
Quien atribuye a la crisis sus fracasos y penurias, violenta su propio talento y respeta más a los problemas que a las soluciones. La verdadera crisis es la crisis de la incompetencia. El inconveniente de las personas y los países es la pereza para encontrar las salidas y soluciones. Sin crisis no hay desafíos, sin desafíos la vida es una rutina, una lenta agonía. Sin crisis no hay méritos. Es en la crisis donde aflora lo mejor de cada uno, porque sin crisis todo viento es caricia. Hablar de crisis es promoverla, y callar en la crisis es exaltar el conformismo. En vez de eso trabajemos duro. Acabemos de una vez con la única crisis amenazadora que es la tragedía de no querer luchar por superarla.
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Sobre uno mismo. About one's self...
No se equivoca el hombre que ensaya distintos caminos para alcanzar sus metas. Se equivoca aquel que por temor a equivocarse nunca trata de enayar!
El no volar...
No se equivoca el pájaro que ensayando el primer vuelo cae al suelo. Se equivoca aquel que por mantener la seguridad del nido y por temor a caerse renuncia a volar.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
JFK on Thomas Jefferson
John F. Kennedy famously commented, addressing a group of Nobel laureates at the White House, that it was, "The most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
Saturday, February 11, 2012
From the film The Ides of March
Paul Zara in The Ides Of March:
"I value TRUST over SKILL, ... and in politics, in f... politics, the only currency that counts is LOYALTY, and without it you are nothing!" Words spoken by Paul Zara, Senior Campaign Manager, to Stephen Meyers upon firing him from the job of campaign manager from the Mike Morris U.S. presidential campaign in the race for the White House. Taken from the award winning film, THE IDES OF MARCH.
"I value TRUST over SKILL, ... and in politics, in f... politics, the only currency that counts is LOYALTY, and without it you are nothing!" Words spoken by Paul Zara, Senior Campaign Manager, to Stephen Meyers upon firing him from the job of campaign manager from the Mike Morris U.S. presidential campaign in the race for the White House. Taken from the award winning film, THE IDES OF MARCH.
Monday, December 26, 2011
Sam Walton opening the 2nd Wal-Mart
In 1962 Sam Walton went from Rogers, Arkansas, where he had opened his first Wal-Mart store, to the Ben Franklin Headquarters in Chicago; he went there with an idea, the idea of taking a discount store and putting it in small towns in rural America, thus he asked the high personnel of Ben Franklin's to sell him merchandise at a discount rate so that he and them could together serve the rural communities with discount stores (Wal-Mart's); however, after a morning of discussions, they refused to sell him merchanidse at a discount rate.
Well, undeterred, he continued to pursue his vision, and two years later, in 1964, at age 46, he opened his 2nd Wal-Mart store in Harrison, Arkansas; however, it was anything but a smooth opening. David Glass, president of a drug retail chain explained what he saw the day it opened, "I saw Sam bought a couple of truck-loads of watermelons and he had stacked them across the front of the store, and he had donkey rides for the kids out in the parking lot; but what he didn't anticipate was that the temperature would rise to 110 degrees Farenheit in Harrison that day, and the waterlons began to pop and then watermelon juice began run over the parking lot and the donkeys did what donkeys do, and you can imagine what it looked like. The thing I didn't realize about Sam, though, and the people who were involved in those early days in Wal-Mart is that they had a quality that I haven't seen in many people or in many companies, and that was that there was never a day that went by that they didn't improve something." When Sam died in 1994, the same David Glass, who had been hired by Sam earlier, became President and CEO of Wal-Mart, and the ratail store witnessed its greatest growth.
Well, undeterred, he continued to pursue his vision, and two years later, in 1964, at age 46, he opened his 2nd Wal-Mart store in Harrison, Arkansas; however, it was anything but a smooth opening. David Glass, president of a drug retail chain explained what he saw the day it opened, "I saw Sam bought a couple of truck-loads of watermelons and he had stacked them across the front of the store, and he had donkey rides for the kids out in the parking lot; but what he didn't anticipate was that the temperature would rise to 110 degrees Farenheit in Harrison that day, and the waterlons began to pop and then watermelon juice began run over the parking lot and the donkeys did what donkeys do, and you can imagine what it looked like. The thing I didn't realize about Sam, though, and the people who were involved in those early days in Wal-Mart is that they had a quality that I haven't seen in many people or in many companies, and that was that there was never a day that went by that they didn't improve something." When Sam died in 1994, the same David Glass, who had been hired by Sam earlier, became President and CEO of Wal-Mart, and the ratail store witnessed its greatest growth.
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