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Solutions for When Your Budget Just Isn’t Working

Commentary by Kathleen Teare
RISMEDIA, June 3, 2008-Across the nation, owners and managers are working and reworking the budget-and it still isn’t working. Is that because they are not scrutinizing every single line item for relevance, or do they

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COMMUNICATION/PERSUASION

"To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences." -- John Henry Patterson

"Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders…Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest." -- Dale Carnegie

"The organization that can’t communicate can’t change, and the corporation that can’t change is dead." -- Nido Qubein

"The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, ‘Me, too!’ versus ‘So what?’" -- Jim Rohn
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COMMITMENT

"Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never. Never…in anything great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." -- Sir Winston Churchill

"If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then start to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking." -- Lou Holtz

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." -- Dale Carnegie

"If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider." -- Joyce Brothers
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COACHING/MENTORS

"No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself." -- Conrado I. Generoso

"Always be eager to learn, no matter how successful you might already be. In the Millionaires’ Club, we sometimes invite a billionaire to come talk to us. He says, ‘You’re doing okay, but come on. How about if you really poured it on!’" -- Jim Rohn

"No one can teach you that which they have not done. Beware of who you choose to learn from." -- Tom Hopkins

"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions." -- Harold S. Geneen
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CLARITY

"The more specific you are about the job you want, the easier you are to hire." -- Brian Tracy

"When you know clearly what you want, you’ll wake up every morning excited about life." -- Mark Victor Hansen

"If you are clear about what you want, the world responds with clarity." -- Loretta Staples

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain cool and unruffled under all circumstances." -- Thomas Jefferson
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