February 7, 2005

note to self:

5 Comments

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NOTE TO SELF: You really should think about get­ting more into this busi­ness.

5 Responses to “note to self:”

  1. david parmet says:
    February 7, 2005 at 12:13 pm

    You really should be in this: http://despair.com/

  2. Hamish says:
    February 7, 2005 at 12:14 pm

    Ack! Barf! Wow. That’s ama­zing.
    I mean get­ting one of those would be like being fired.
    “This award says that collec­ti­vely we are so cyni­cal, and you are so dumb, that this might moti­vate you, rather than let­ting you know that you are being fuc­ked up the ass by mana­ge­ment for all you are worth, and ins­tead of being paid, you get this piece of shit.”
    Arrgh. Smell the cof­fee. Get the fuck out of Dodge.
    But then I sup­pose the next ques­tion is, how do you reward your pro­duc­tive lower level wor­kers.
    Why give, them a phone call in Ban­ga­lore, and tell them how well they are doing!
    And lis­ten to the smart per­son at the other end the line absor­bing what remains of Wes­tern busi­ness exper­tise, and get­ting ready to show us what they can do.
    Bah. If I’d been born twenty years ear­lier, I could be reti­red by now, and living on a pen­sion and com­plai­ning.
    As it is, I am just fearful.

  3. Brendan Thorne says:
    February 7, 2005 at 5:20 pm

    Damn, David beat me to pos­ting http://despair.com
    Is anyone REALLY moti­va­ted by those suc­ces­so­ries pos­ters? I find them so vague and laugha­ble that I don’t know how anyone could take them seriously. I don’t know about the rules behind inte­llec­tual pro­perty rights, but quo­tes from real peo­ple would mean a lot more to me than something a mar­ke­ting think tank crea­ted after a Tony Rob­bins ben­der.
    My favo­ri­tes:
    If everything is under con­trol, you are going too slow. –Mario Andretti
    Nothing in this world can take the place of per­sis­tence. Talent will not; nothing is more com­mon than unsuc­cess­ful men with talent. Genius will not; unre­war­ded genius is almost a pro­verb. Edu­ca­tion will not; the world is full of edu­ca­ted dere­licts. Per­sis­tence and deter­mi­na­tion alone are omni­po­tent. The slo­gan ‘press on’ has sol­ved and always will solve the pro­blems of the human race. — Calvin Coo­lidge
    The sec­ret to crea­ti­vity is kno­wing how to hide your sour­ces.  — Albert Eins­tein
    To avoid cri­ti­cism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. — Elbert Hubbard

  4. john t unger says:
    February 7, 2005 at 7:43 pm

    I have a pav­lo­vian reac­tion that dri­ves me to bite peo­ple who try to “moti­vate” me with cute phra­ses… A nice cyni­cal Hugh pos­ter would go a lot further for this puppy!
    Just for the record, my favo­rite “moti­va­tio­nal” phrase is: “That’s really good! You can do better

  5. Steve Griffiths says:
    February 8, 2005 at 10:40 am

    Defi­ni­tely the source of your first million Hugh. Go for it!