Success Maxims (Part 14)

Kasper & Associates maintains faith in the American spirit and we believe in the power of positive thinking.  To that end, we’ve established a monthly posting to our blog – Success Maxims — a collection of our favorite motivational quotes, essays and leadership advice.  (For a complete collection, e-mail your mailing address to contact@kasperassociates.com.)

SUCCESS MAXIMS

–Part 14–

Affirmations

(by Thomas Jefferson)

• Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
• Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
• Never spend your money before you have it.
• Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap.
• Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
• We seldom repent having eaten too little.
• Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
• How much pain the evils have cost us that have never happened!
• Take things always by the smooth handle.
• When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.