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Time Management: Master Your Time, Master Your Life

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

There’s this huge lie we tell ourselves that “we don’t have enough time”. There is some truth to do that because eventually one day we won’t have any more time,...
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Yogi Berra
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Yogi Berra

By Yogi Berra

October 18, 2019

"If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else." - Yogi Berra
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I Won't Back Down
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I Won't Back Down

By Tom Petty

October 18, 2019

A line to think about: "Gonna stand my ground, won't be turned around And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down Gonna stand my ground and I won't back...
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By Tin Hat Trio

October 18, 2019

Editor's Note: Tin Hat/Tin Hat Trio, in my opinion, writes some of the most beautiful and creative music while referencing many genres of music, including jazz, southern blues, bluegrass, neoclassical,...
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The Head and The Heart

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

Our website’s March article of the month features a wonderful story about a social enterprise named First Book.   Their organization provides tens of millions of books a year to...
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Quote: Failure is…

October 18, 2019

"Failure is [more] not fatal but failure to change might be." Written by John Wooden
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The Temptation to Lie | Norman Brodsky

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

Editor’s Note :  I love this simple old fashioned business lesson, reported here by Brodsky in a current situation.  Most of my mentoring time is with small business where the...
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Story: Disseminating Orphan Innovations

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

Disseminating Orphan Innovations written by Susan H. Evans & Peter Clarke Published: Stanford Social Innovations Review, Winter 2011 Editor's Note: I feel lazy using SSIR so often to pass on...
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Noah Harari
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Noah Harari

By Homo Deus

October 18, 2019

Editor’s note :  This mind blowing work, subtitled “A Brief History of Tomorrow”, gets a bit lost for me because of its ambition to forecast a few hundred years forward. ...
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Robert Frost
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Robert Frost

By Robert Frost

October 18, 2019

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. -Robert Frost
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Bill Taylor

By Bill Taylor

October 18, 2019

Money may be the root of all evil, but only if you are not honest about what it means to you. -Bill Taylor
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Pablo Picasso
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Pablo Picasso

By Pablo Picasso

October 18, 2019

The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away – Pablo Picasso
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The Wright Brothers

By David McCullough

October 18, 2019

Editor’s note: If you like history, spiced up by great writing, this is a can’t miss. It reads like a novel and yet I learned very interesting detail about man’s...
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“Why For-Profit and Philanthropic Investing Can Succeed”, Wharton Review, Katherine Klein and Derek Hanley interview

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

Thanks to friend, Ron DeMattia, for passing this great interview onto me, on to you. Peace. Link to Article
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A philanthropic boom: “donor-advised funds”
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A philanthropic boom: “donor-advised funds”

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

From the print edition | Finance and economics www.economist.com Mar 23rd 2017 JEFF POWERS was raised as “a good Catholic boy”. So when he sold his wall-fastener business in 2012...
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Mastering Time

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

I asked the business owner who was lamenting the challenges of being an entrepreneur, "Who decides what you do in a day?".  He answered, "me, of course".  My point of...
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Lessons Lived

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

Author’s Note: These short stories are a series exemplify lessons I’ve learned in building a foundation. I realized in writing these that I’m not embarrassed by the mistakes I’ve made;...
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Mohammed Yunus
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Mohammed Yunus

By Mohammed Yunus

October 18, 2019

"This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty." -Mohammed Yunus
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens

By Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American Writer

October 18, 2019

"The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." -Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American Writer
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Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Martin Luther King, Jr.

October 18, 2019

"Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I Can't Quit You Baby
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I Can't Quit You Baby

By Led Zeppelin

October 18, 2019

Lyric: I can't quit you babe, so I'm gonna put you down for a while
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