"Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do."

- Jonas Salk


what is t.a.d.?

"If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today."

- E. Joseph Cossman

This quote reminded me of a guest post I did a few years back on the Trader-X blog - "Who will you be in five years?"


what is t.a.d.?

"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky


what is t.a.d.?

"The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream."

- Harry Kemp


what is t.a.d.?

"Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential."

- Winston Churchill


what is t.a.d.?

"We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."

- Eleanor Roosevelt


what is t.a.d.?

"Shun idleness. It is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals."

- Voltaire


what is t.a.d.?

"Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want."

- Geoffrey F. Abert


what is t.a.d.?

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

- Vincent van Gogh


what is t.a.d.?

"We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Your key to freedom lies in your power to control your thoughts."

- Unknown

"It is very humbling to realize that the difference between success and failure in your life can be which habit (positive or negative thinking) you adopt..."

- The T.A.D. Principle


what is t.a.d.?

"I've also been lucky. I've never had to wonder where my next meal will come from. I've never feared that a foreign army will come in the night with machetes or machine guns to kill or injure my family. I've never had to run for my life (something I could never do now anyway). Sadly, these are things some people have to do every day right now."

- Derek K. Miller, rest in peace


what is t.a.d.?

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first."

- Mark Twain


what is t.a.d.?

"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience."

- Robert Fulghum

"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."

- Frank A. Clark


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