Thinking outside the gym

From Club Industry:  You never know what other industry holds the key to a new fitness idea.  Just 10 years ago, no one would have thought about mergin video games and exercise or basing group exercise classes on Latin dance moves.

Isn't showing up good enough, you mean I have to work also?

"Play (work) like you mean it."

Rex Ryan, coach of the New York Jets

I'm surprise we don't have higher unemployment rate! :-))

You better be fired with enthusiasm or we will fire you with enthusiasm.  

Vince Lombardi, legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers

This is why some powers to be who make up rules are so wrong, yet don't know about it :-)

"Oftentimes the thing that people are upset about isn't the actual thing they should be upset about."

Larry Page, co-founder Google

Follow-up on HSN

From the Motley Fool Newsletter of 01/31/2011:

"HSN'S recovery from the recession has been led by its innovation and social media initiatives that have created a new genre of integrated television shopping. It is a promising story and one that investors should follow."

Nothing's Perfectt

From Mike Duke, CEO of WalMart

"I don't know that there's a business model that says, 'You're going to empower the organization. You're going to experiment. You're going to change and try new things all the time, but you're not going to make any mistakes,'" Duke says.

Gut Feeling

Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, made 2 brilliant personnel decisions in 2000:  hiring Belichick as the Patriots head coach and de facto general manager and drafting Tom Brady in the 6th round that year.  Nobody else in the league wanted either.  Why did Kraft pick them up?  "My gut," Kraft says without pause.  "That's how the best things in my life have happened."