One of my favorite columns to read is the New York Time’s “Corner Office”, twice a week (Fridays and Sundays) it highlights interviews with the leaders of small to medium sized companies. The following excerpt is of Rob Gough, President of Eckim, a marketing company.
“I think that everything is possible. A prime example happened about six months ago. My business partner and I are very different. I’m very positive, and he’s very realistic, as he calls it.”
“We were at a conference, and two women from a large retailer were eating lunch at a table. I always like to sit with people I don’t know, and this was a big brand we had wanted to work with for a long time.”
“My business partner said to me: ‘I know what you’re thinking. You’re never going to get that. This brand has never allowed it and will never allow it. I promise you that.’ I was thinking, ‘Of course they can.’ So I started talking to the ladies, and now we have that deal. Nothing is impossible. You just have to figure out a way.” -New York Times, “Impossible? Only Until You Prove Otherwise”, 5/16/14 p. B2
Closing Quotes:
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela, (1918-2013)
“To believe a thing impossible is to make it so.” – French Proverb
“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” – G. M. Trevelyan, British historian (1876-1962)
“To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.” – Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832) Scottish novelist, playwright & poet.
“We have more power than will; and it is often by way of excuse to ourselves that we fancy things are impossible.” – Francois Duc De la Rochefoucauld, (1613-1680)