Something about this photo makes me laugh every time I see it.

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.” – Cyril Connolly

“For every customer who bothers to complain, there are 26 others who remain silent.

• The average “wronged” customer will tell 8 to 16 people
• 91% of unhappy customers will never purchase services from you again
• It costs about five times as much to attract a new customer as it costs to keep an old one
• Each one of your customers has a circle of influence of 250 people or potential customers who hear bad things about you!”

Source: http://codebetter.com/

I was watching The Next Iron Chef on TV tonight which happened to be the finale.  Chef Mehta ended up losing but what he said at the end was very thought provoking.  His metaphor about life was fantastic!  Check this out, it blew my mind…he said: “It’s a little disappointing (losing) but…life is like a staircase — you go up, you go down..but you must never think that the staircase only takes you down.  You must always think that a staircase only takes you up.”

“We often hear about U.S. teachers being paid poorly for all the work they do to educate children. But did you know that 63 percent of teachers report buying food for the classroom each month with their own money? That’s just one statistic from a report put out by Share Our Strength, which surveyed teachers across the country about hunger in America’s classrooms. You can download the full Teachers report and learn more surprising facts about hungry kids and the teachers trying to help them at the Share Our Strength site. Share Our Strength also interviewed two teachers in New York City about their personal experiences with students who have come to depend on them for enough food to get them through the day.” 

Source:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/23/more-than-half-of-teacher_n_368356.html