Entries Tagged as 'Monday Morning Messages'

Increase Fivefold

February 28th, 2011 · No Comments

This week’s Monday Morning Message from Wm. H. Danforth, founder of Ralston Purina: What is the Monday Morning Message? “Increase Fivefold? Say, it will take a life time to do that.” All right, let it take a life time, but begin at once— this very week. Here’s a little example for you. Suppose you had [...]

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Up or Down?

February 21st, 2011 · No Comments

This week’s Monday Morning Message from Wm. H. Danforth, founder of Ralston Purina: What is the Monday Morning Message? Ever since the day we were born influences, forces, habits, have been fastening half hitches on us and tugging at our lives. Some pull up, some down. Some tug stronger with the years, others weaker. Sometimes [...]

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Leaders

February 14th, 2011 · No Comments

This week’s Monday Morning Message from Wm. H. Danforth, founder of Ralston Purina: What is the Monday Morning Message? Leaders simply fascinate me. I read about them, talk about them. I sidle up to them, hoping some Leadership stuff will rub off on me. To get a job done, find a Leader. To distribute a [...]

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Living on Turnips

February 7th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Just as you wouldn’t eat only one food, do not get stuck in ruts in your work and other areas of life.

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Making the Most Out of the Least

January 31st, 2011 · No Comments

This week’s Monday Morning Message from Wm. H. Danforth, founder of Ralston Purina: What is the Monday Morning Message? Seven hundred and fifteen years before Christ, Numa Pompilius, king of Rome, increased the calendar from ten to twelve months. He did this by adding two new months—January and February. By and by along came Julius [...]

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Those Grand Resolutions

January 24th, 2011 · 2 Comments

This week’s Monday Morning Message from Wm. H. Danforth, founder of Ralston Purina: What is the Monday Morning Message? Along with the rest of the world, on New Year’s Day I made a lot of new resolutions. I felt good after making them—kind of satisfied with myself. But here it is the last of January [...]

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If You Won’t Be, You Can’t Be

January 17th, 2011 · 1 Comment

This week’s Monday Morning Message from Wm. H. Danforth, founder of Ralston Purina: What is the Monday Morning Message? A sign hangs in the Club House of Bill Roper’s Princeton football squad: “A team that won’t be beaten, can’t be beaten.” You men who are putting your life behind Purina Checkerboard Chows just won’t be [...]

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It’s Knowing How That Counts

January 10th, 2011 · No Comments

You may have ambition to win. You may have resources and boundless energy. But you fail because you are lacking in the “Know How.”

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Idle Chatter or Worthwhile Talk?

January 3rd, 2011 · 2 Comments

The “office water cooler” may still exist for those who work in offices, but wherever you work you can be lured into idle chatter via Twitter, Facebook, email, texting and other online communications.

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The Plan for a New Year

December 27th, 2010 · No Comments

This week’s Monday Morning Message from Wm. H. Danforth, founder of Ralston Purina: What is the Monday Morning Message? Nobody loves an adventure any more than I, but you wouldn’t catch me setting sail over an uncharted sea with no maps to guide and a captain who didn’t know the way. Before I get on [...]

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