Twitter Updates – March 2009 (Great Quotes)

Here are a few selected Twitter updates I posted through March 2009. March was a month of quotes and I found a lot of appealing and interesting quotes from people whom I follow on Twitter. While I love all of them, I specially like the ones marked in bold.

For those new toTwitter, RT stands for Retweet which simply means re-posting the tweets posted by others.

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• Great RT @rosasay A conversation is like a dance. Someone leads, someone follows. Try to lead at the same time, you’ll end up with sore toes.
• RT @silixell “If you posses something that you can’t give away, then it posses you.” Frank Sinatra #quote
• Note at my dentist’s office: “Your teeth – you get them free twice, third time you have to pay for it”
• “Workaholsim is as bad to productivity as alcoholism.”
• “No matter what business you are into, you are in the people business!“- heard Tom Peters saying this in one of the podcast!
• RT @SusanOrchard A lady at a recent networking event had on a button that said “I refuse to participate in the recession.” – What about you?
• RT @Mike_Wesely #QUOTE: “Love is a game that two can play and both win.” ~Eva Gabor
• Spend just a bit more timewith all your staff:(1) to show that they are valued and (2) to check they know EXACTLY how to do their job well.
• Stars shine brighter when surrounded by other stars. Questn: Are you a star? If so, are you surrounded by stars who help you shine brighter?
• RT @raj_bokdia “I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.” Elbert Hubbard
• RT @Mike_Wesely #QUOTE: “Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says “Go!” – a leader says “Let’s go!” ~E.M. Kelly
• #GreatQuote “If you want to know what a man is, place him in authority.” – Yugoslav proverb
• “Leaders live in fish bowl and are always being watched. They should always be conscious of that fact and take advantage of it.” Gene Klann
• “Men don’t follow titles they follow courage…” – this quote emphasizes that leaderships is not about title, position or rank!
• RT @wclements “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” -Mark Twain
• RT @Ben14864 #QUOTE “Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.” – Anthony Robbins
• Very Interesting – RT @BreakThruGuy “Worry is like a rocking chair – it gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere.” ~Unknown
• RT @rosasay “The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.” —Nido Qubein
• #GreatThought If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization. –Robert Noyce
• #GreatQuote “There is good in everybody – Boost, don’t Knock.”
• RT @BreakThruGuy RT @iquote “Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.” — Jesse Jackson
• RT @nametagscott To bring more of yourself to any situation, just ask: Am I currently acting in harmony with the way I see myself?
• “All things being equal people will do business with people they like. All things not being equal, they still will.” -John C. Maxwell
• Expect the best only after giving your best, consistently!
• I think that failure is acceptable after you have given your best. Accepting failure without giving your best attempt is criminal.
• RT @UpbeatNow Very nice. RT @janebutton “Wisdom is knowing the right path to take…integrity is taking it.” — M.H. McKee
• Insightful Question: “If you don’t enjoy what you have, how could you be happier with more?” – RT @BreakThruGuy @ChipEFTRT @HemalRadia
• RT @alexmalave Environment beats Discipline.
• MUST READ: A truly inspiring story at Boston.com – that “E” in CEO can sometimes stand for “Empathy”. http://tinyurl.com/c7gh9l
• #QUOTE “Nearly all men can stand adversity – but give him power, and the extent of his character will be revealed.” -Anonymous
• RT @SKanderson “The desire to win only matters when coupled with the desire to prepare.”10:41 PM Mar 16th from web
• RT @Mike_Wesely #QUOTE: “I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.” ~~Author Unknown
• RT @MarvinTowler “The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.” -Robert Frost
• RT @BreakThruGuy @silixell “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”–Lois McMaster Bujold
• A gem from Seth Godin – “The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.” http://tinyurl.com/bsd4us
• “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience – well, that comes from poor judgment.” -British author A.A. Milne
• #QUOTE “Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.” -Josh Billings
• #QUOTES “Life is luck, make it.” – Mother Teresa
• #QUOTE The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow. –William Pollard
• #QUOTE “If it wasn’t for the rocks the river would have no song.”
• #QUOTE “Life is a grindstone whether it grinds you down or polishes you up – it depends on what you are made of.”
• #QUOTE “Needs can be met, greeds never.”
• RT Ben14864: #QUOTE “Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.” – J. Donald Walters
• RT @Mike_Wesely #QUOTE: “He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. ~Joseph Heller. (Just loved this one) Good Day!
• RT @Mike_Wesely “If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.” ~Arthur Goldberg
• RT @Ben14864 “The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn” – David Russell
• RT @JayKoch @Ben14864 “The world has the habit of making room for a man whose words and actions show that he knows where he’s going.- N.Hill
• @Mike_Wesely “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and to discover that the prisoner was you.” Read more @ my blog http://tinyurl.com/dmr4vh
• #GreatThought “Some people just don’t want freedom of choice though, they want freedom from it.” http://tinyurl.com/brf5eq
• RT @Mike_Wesel #QUOTE: “Rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.” ~~Woodrow Wilson
• RT @JayKoch “People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• #PowerQuote “The most effective marketing is human to human; everything else is a compromise.” http://tinyurl.com/agu93u10:50 PM Mar 5th from TwitterBar
• RT @nametagscott MANAGER: “But my door is always open!” EMPLOYEE: “True. My question is – Are your mind and heart open too?

#TRIVIA When month & day form square root of year,math geeks celebrate “Square Root Day”. 3/3/09 was that day which comes only 9 times in a century.

• #GreatQuotes “It isn’t the mountain that wears you out, its the grain of sand in your shoes”
• A professional knows it is very easy to attack/destroy, much harder to build, augment, be help and think abundant. https://qaspire.com/
• On web, why would someone connect to you if you have not built a value-based relationship? Even if they connect would that be helpful?
• Ten Personal Commandments of Management/Leadership at https://www.qaspire.com/ What commandments do you follow to lead?
• #SundayHumor Palmist to a Politician: You stand a good chance of winning elections since both the head and heart lines are missing!
• #SundayHumor Palmist to a man: You have nothing left in your right hand and you have nothing right in your left hand!