Art Fettig’s Monday Morning Memo
September 7, 2009
In This Issue
o A Lesson From Honest Abe
o Say Something Good
o Visit Our Website
o Points To Ponder
o A Little Humor
o Quote of the Week
o To Subscribe
A Lesson from Honest Abe
Abraham Lincoln was reported to have said, 1.You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. 2. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. 3 You cannot help strong men by tearing down big men. 4.You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. 5. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred. 6. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. 7. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. 8. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. 9. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence.10. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do themselves.
I just read the above from page 190 in my book Winning the Safety Commitment. As I was reading it I started thinking about our current mess in Washington and wondering how many of our representatives in Washington would agree with Old Abe today? We certainly have come a long way since the days of Lincoln but where are we right now and where are we going?
Say Something Good
From the mountains, to the prairie to the ocean, white with foam. I’m sitting here in my office in beautiful, historic old Hillsborough, North Carolina and we will be driving to Asheville later today. Beautiful Asheville, North Carolina with it’s mountains and scenery, its nearby casino and whatever. I guess we live here in the prairie but it is really hilly here and just a few hours east is the Atlantic Ocean. Most folks head for the mountains or the ocean quite frequently on weekends. When I first came down here from Michigan I wrote a song and it pretty well summed things up with the line…North Carolina has everything. I love it. May God bless America and bring our troops home safely…now.
Visit Our Website
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Points To Ponder
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. Thomas Merton
A Little Humor
You’ve been in Corporate America too long when you celebrate your wedding anniversary by conducting a performance review.
Quote of the Week
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. Lee Iococca
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