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Today’s Quote

December 19th, 2009 · 9 Comments

“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties out of his opportunities.  An optimist is one who make opportunities out of his difficulties.”

– Harry Truman

Tags: real estate

9 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Sire (53 comments.) // Dec 21, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    Yep, and you really hit it big when you can help others with their difficulties.
    .-= Sire´s last blog ..Of Gary Vaynerchuk And His Belief That You Can Cash In On Your Passion =-.

  • 2 Ned // Dec 22, 2009 at 1:43 am

    To extend a conversation from your blog:

    Problem – too many comments to reply to them all
    Opportunity – to connect with that many more readers

  • 3 Sire (53 comments.) // Dec 22, 2009 at 1:59 am

    And again Ned, they don’t see it, but that’s all the better for us mate. We have all of next year and beyond to capitalize on it.
    .-= Sire´s last blog ..How Amazon And The Power Of Keywords Can Increase Your Earnings =-.

  • 4 Petra Weiss (2 comments.) // Dec 22, 2009 at 11:04 am

    This is one of the best quotes I have ever heard! I love it! So I just re-tweeted it for you. Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving some nice comments. Great achievement on your PR4 – and you seem to be getting a lot of traffic, too! That’s the most important thing.
    .-= Petra Weiss´s last blog ..SEO Contest Finished – Learn From The Results =-.

  • 5 Ned // Dec 22, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    Keeping more in touch, not just on my blog, will be a focus for me next year. And thank you for your participation here on my blog.

  • 6 Ned // Dec 22, 2009 at 2:16 pm

    Thanks for the visit and the retweet Petra!

    I really don’t get that much traffic. (I just checked your Alexa stats and you beat me by a factor of 10!) I am a little stumped by it. It would appear that I am not getting much repeat traffic so every month is a new battle. Maybe your tweet will make the difference 🙂

  • 7 Jim Hardin (4 comments.) // Dec 24, 2009 at 11:12 am

    Great Quote! I think its true if we can learn from out mistakes or difficulties can achieve more. I work in a manufacturing environment, my real job, and there are always things that happen. What we look at are the root causes of these things that happen and correct them so they don’t happen again. There are always opportunities for improvement and we need to learn from out mistakes and difficulties to be successful.

    Side note: My father grew up in the Baltimore area. We used to travel to Baltimore quite often when I was a kid to visit my grandmother and my aunt and uncle. I have fond memories of the Inner Harbor and Ocean City and plan to bring my kids there one day!

  • 8 HP@link building (1 comments.) // Dec 29, 2009 at 10:06 pm

    This is an excellent quote. I knew the quote, but I did not know that it was Truman who said it.
    .-= HP@link building´s last blog ..Free SEO Tool Called TouchGraph That is Really Helpful for Link Building =-.

  • 9 Ned // Dec 31, 2009 at 3:47 pm

    HP, Thanks for stopping by – Ned