Ideals & Values

 

    

 

             For Options Realty, these quotes  -  these ideals and values  -  are…

                           part goal,

                           part guideline,

                           part philosophy and

                           all inspiration.

 

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Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

 

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Donald A. Adams

 

People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it.

Howard W. Newton

 

Quality isn’t something that can be argued into an article or promised into it. It must be put there. If it isn’t put there, the finest sales talk in the world won’t act as a substitute.

C.G. Campbell

 

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain, card sent to Young People’s Society, 1901

 

When in doubt tell the truth.

Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897

 

To rejoice in the prosperity of another is to partake of it.

William Austin

 

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent efforts.

John Ruskin

 

He who stops being better stops being good.

Oliver Cromwell

 

Professionalism means consistency of quality.

Frank Tyger

 

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

 

Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.

John Burroughs

 

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

 

When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

 

By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Benjamin Franklin

 

See first that the design is wise and just; that ascertained, pursue it resolutely.

William Shakespeare

 

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.

Sir William Osler

 

Complacency is the enemy of progress.

Dave Stutman

 

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.

Donald G. Mitchell

 

A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

Samuel Goldwyn

 

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

Character is not made in a crisis – it is only exhibited.

Robert Freeman

 

Timing is everything. It is as important to when as to know how.

Arnold Glasow

 

There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthur

 

Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.

James Freeman Clarke

 

Common sense is genius dressed in working cloths.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

I had six honest serving men – they taught me all I knew: Their names were Where and What and When and Why and How and Who.

Rudyard Kipling

 

Research means you don’t know, but are willing to find out.

Charles F. Kettering

 

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus, by example, assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Abraham Lincoln

 

Property is dear to men not only for the sensual pleasure it can afford, but also because it is the bulwark of all they hold dearest on earth, and above all else because it is the safeguard of those they love most against misery and all physical distress.

William Graham Sumner

 

Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent in all that distinguishes the civilized man from the savage.

James Fenimore Cooper

 

“Why” and “How” are words so important they cannot be too often used.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The smart ones ask when they don’t know. And, sometimes, when they do.

Malcolm Forbes

 

Some men see things as they are and ask, “Why?” I dream of things that never were and ask, “Why not?”

Robert F. Kennedy

 

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Francis Bacon

 

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

Charles P. Steinmetz

 

The common facts of today are the products of yesterday’s research.

Duncan MacDonald

 

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