Quotes of the Day

The Rule of 5: Every day, we do five specific things that will move our goal toward completion. [2005] - Jack Canfield

Directly criticizing a competitor reflects badly on you. Instead, ask targeted questions and help the customer make comparisons. Find out how they view competitors compared with their perceptions of you. [2003] - Linda Richardson

If you are male, it's acceptable to approach a woman from the front and eventually you can angle yourself to 45 degrees. Never approach men directly from the front or women from behind. [2004] - Allan Pease

Your saliva contains DNA, and you can send it away to test for risk markers of cancers, Parkinson’s disease, late-onset Alzheimer’s disease, celiac disease, and rare disorders (hereditary thrombophilia, hereditary hemochromatosis, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, Gaucher’s disease type 1, Factor XI deficiency, early-onset primary dystonia, and alpha-1-antitrysin deficiency). While only 5–10% of cancers are hereditary in nature, they can be identified through genetic testing. These are breast (female and male), colorectal, melanoma, ovarian, pancreatic, prostate, stomach, and uterine. The risk for some heart conditions can also be detected through DNA tests. Familial hypercholesterolemia, arteriopathies, arrhythmias, and cardiomyopathies are all detectable. [2019] - William W Li

The severity of the slump will depend on the primary factors underpinning it, which typically fall into the following two categories: 1. Overbuilding - due to too much construction. 2. Overpricing - where real estate becomes unaffordable for too many people. Slumps typically initiated by overbuilding are less severe than slumps initiated by overpricing. Slumps led by both overbuilding and overpricing are particularly severe. As a slump phase begins, real estate affordability is adversely affected by tightening credit and prices rising to unrealistic levels. Ironically real estate values continue to increase initially, albeit more slowly than in the preceding boom. Here, rents decrease and vacancy rates increase, clearly at odds with values that continue to rise. [2011] - Don R. Campbell