Lost Marbles Part I The Ultimate PowerPoint “Swipe” File for Business Executives by Laura Bergells.

Lost Lost MarblesMarbles

Part IPart IThe Ultimate PowerPoint

“Swipe” Filefor Business Executives

by Laura Bergells

LawyersLawyers

Will future anthropologists need to pass the

bar just to decipher our culture?

Small CompanySmall Company

The nice thing about working in a small

company is that when I don’t know what I’m doing, at least my co-

workers and clients do.

Entrance & ExitsEntrance & Exits

My final exit will be my greatest entrance.

AimAim

When my aim got better, I ran out of

ammo.

Mouth and EarsMouth and Ears

My ears aren’t made to shut, but my mouth

is.

Mouth and EarsMouth and Ears

Don’t you hate it when people want to

talk about themselves when you want to talk

about yourself?

Mouth and EarsMouth and Ears

A good listener is not only popular, but after a while, she actually knows something.

Mouth and EarsMouth and Ears

The tongue is only a few inches from the brain, but to hear

some people talk, you’d think the two were miles apart.

Mouth and EarsMouth and Ears

There’s nothing wrong with having nothing to

say, as long as you don’t say it out loud.

Press ConferencesPress Conferences

If you talk too much, you’ll say too much.

Press ConferencesPress Conferences

Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted.

Press ConferencesPress Conferences

If you make three new product announcements a day, you won’t remember them next

week.

Neither will your customers.

Infinite PossibilitiesInfinite Possibilities

I can accept finite disappointment, but I

won’t lose infinite hope.

Speed of LightSpeed of Light

Einstein said that nothing was faster than the speed of light, but he’s

wrong. My imagination is much faster than the speed of light. For example, I just imagined traveling to Pluto and back. If I took a space ship that could

travel at the speed of light, that would take centuries.

Speed of LightSpeed of Light

Also, if Energy equals mass times the Speed of Light Squared, this

says that the speed of light can be squared. That’s faster than the

speed of light, and I just imagined that, too!

Speed of LightSpeed of Light

What light? I’m still looking for

the tunnel!!

Speed of LightSpeed of Light

There’s nothing like experience to

upset a theory.

New IdeasNew Ideas

Our ideas are like children – no matter how much you admire somebody else’s,

you still love your own the best.

New IdeasNew Ideas

An optimist takes the cold water thrown on new ideas,

heats it with enthusiasm and uses the steam to push

them ahead.

TruthTruth

The truth does not depend on a

consensus of opinion.

Generation GapGeneration Gap

As we grow older, our children will eventually

end up on the same side of the generation gap.

Gen GapGen Gap

You’ve reached middle age when all you exercise is

caution. And you choose your cereal for the fiber instead of

the toy.

MaturityMaturity

Maturity begins when you’re content to feel right about something without feeling the need to prove

someone else wrong.

MaturityMaturity

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

MaturityMaturity

Wrinkles should show where smiles have

been.

ShipsShips

Noah didn’t wait for his ship to come in. . . . He built it!

shipsships

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.

shipsships

All the water in the world could not sink a ship unless it got inside. In the same way, all the evil in the world could never sink your soul

unless you let it in.

Job well DoneJob well Done

The reward for a job well done is the

opportunity to do more work.

Being differentBeing different

Being different isn’t the same as making

a difference.

Good SenseGood Sense

Good sense is easier to have than to use.

FrustrationFrustration

Frustration is trying to find your glasses without your glasses.

FrustrationFrustration

It’s frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody

asks you the questions.

DietDiet

You are what you eat: what’s on the table eventually ends up

on the chair.

DietDiet

How can a one-pound box of chocolate make me gain five

pounds?

DietDiet

Eat dessert first, because life is uncertain!

DietDiet

Life can be a constant battle between carrots and chocolate, or

you can figure out how you can live with the two in harmony.

DietDiet

My fortune cookie mentioned a great diet. It read “eat all you

can, but only use one chopstick.”

KarmaKarma

The rain falls on the just and the unjust. But mostly on the just, because the unjust have stolen

their umbrellas.

KarmaKarma

You feel right when you do right.

KarmaKarma

The next time someone says, “Life is hard,” ask them,

“Compared to what?”

Mind GamesMind Games

My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves me

completely.

Saving and RetirementSaving and Retirement

A penny saved is not nearly enough.

RetirementRetirement

According to the latest figures, if you retired today, you could live

very comfortably until 3 p.m. tomorrow.

Time ManagementTime Management

There will be no crises next week. My schedule is full.

TroublesTroubles

Troubles come to pass, but the do not come to stay.

TroublesTroubles

Live through the tough times: the only way to the other side is

through it.

WorriesWorries

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of sorrow; it empties today of

strength.

MemoryMemory

I have a photographic memory. Unfortunately, it only offers

same-day service.

MemoryMemory

People do not remember days. They remember moments.

MemoryMemory

I have a photogenic memory: I only remember pretty things.

MemoryMemory

It’s hard to be nostalgic when I can’t remember anything!

PossibilitiesPossibilities

Nothing is impossible to the people who don’t have to do it

themselves.

YesterdayYesterday

I love you more than yesterday. Yesterday, you got on my nerves.

Questions and AnswersQuestions and Answers

You may not know all the answers, but you probably won’t be asked

all the questions.

MourningMourning

I’ll laugh again, but I will not forget why I cried.

World PeaceWorld Peace

It doesn’t take monumental acts to make the world a better place. It

can be as easy as letting someone ahead of you in the

lunch line.

Rock BottomRock Bottom

Even though I’m taking it “one day at a time”…

it’s about 24 more hours than I can take right now.

Rock BottomRock Bottom

When the going gets tough. . .

Get tougher!

Rock BottomRock Bottom

The end is not The end is not near. Learn to near. Learn to cope.cope.

Rock BottomRock Bottom

When things are bad, I can take comfort in the thought that they can always get worse. And when things get worse, I find hope in the idea that things are so bad

they have to get better.

Co-DependencyCo-Dependency

Better to better yourself than someone else.

Co-DependencyCo-Dependency

I’m better than I was, but not quite so good as I was before I got

worse.

FrowningFrowning

I hate to see you frown. So wear a bag on your head until you cheer

up.

PatiencePatience

The patient conceal their impatience.

ThankfulnessThankfulness

Something to be thankful for is that you’re here to be thankful.

DestinyDestiny

Choice, not chance, determines destiny.

DestinyDestiny

Don’t worry about the world ending today. It’s already tomorrow in

China.

HopeHope

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but

the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it

turns out.

RiskRisk

Progress involves risk. You can’t steal second with your foot on

first.

RiskRisk

Life isn’t about having good cards. It’s playing a poor hand well.

GraceGrace

It’s hard to get down off your high horse gracefully.

GRACEGRACE

Amusing Grace! How sweet the sound of laughter!

GRACEGRACE

Tact is not only saying the right thing at the right time, but also to

leave unsaid the wrong thing a tempting moment.

ComplainingComplaining

It’s not the mountain that wears me out – it’s the grain of sand in

my shoe.

ComplainingComplaining

It’s not the load that brings me down, it’s the way I carry it.

ShoutingShouting

Shouting and screaming to get people to perform is like using

the horn to steer your car.

thinkingthinking

Many people get through thinking before they get through thinking

things through.

Self-DeprecationSelf-Deprecation

Only some people learn by other people’s mistakes. The rest of us

actually have to be the other people.

Self DepreciationSelf Depreciation

I’m at this awkward age where I’m too old to say something cute

and too young to say something sensible.

How to be HappyHow to be Happy

Three essentials for happiness:

1. Something to do, 2. Someone to love,

3. Something to hope for.

AdviceAdvice

If it’s free; it’s advice. If you pay for it, it’s consulting. If you can use either one, it’s a

miracle!

HumbleHumble

Humility is like underwear – essential, but indecent if it

shows.

HumilityHumility

I have a friend who tells me that he’s a humble man. I told him

that the nature of humility dictates that can’t say that and

have it be true!

Seasonal - DecemberSeasonal - December

Presence, not presents, make for a happy workplace.

ChristmasChristmas

When you stop believing in Santa, you get underwear for Christmas.

DecemberDecember

Remember, the holiday gifts of today are on Ebay tomorrow.

DecemberDecember

We’re going to celebrate a traditional American holiday – the tree comes from Canada, the ornaments from Taiwan, the lights from China, the food from Italy and the idea from

Israel and Bethlehem.

Seasonal - JanuarySeasonal - January

If in the last year you haven’t discarded a major opinion or

acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

Seasonal - FebruarySeasonal - February

Love sees through a telescope, not a microscope.

FebruaryFebruary

The force of love, like the force of gravity, is hard to

see but easy to feel.

FebruaryFebruary

All that is worth cherishing in the world begins in the heart, not in

the head.

What Dead People SayWhat Dead People Say

The greatest danger for most of usis not that our aim is too high and we

miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Michelangelo

E-CommerceE-Commerce

eCommerce is not about technology! It is about

relationships, partnerships, and communications, made possible

by technology.

E-CommerceE-Commerce

I guess people thought the phone and the fax machine were all about technology when they

were introduced into businesses, too.

What Dead People SayWhat Dead People SayThere is no use trying,” said Alice. “One can’t

believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,”

said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six

impossible things before breakfast.”Lewis Carroll