October 3

A businessman told me he was going to fire a certain employee because the man was slow, dull, and sleepy. "Instead of firing him out of the business, why not fire him into the business?" I asked. "You mean build a fire under him?" he demanded. "No," I said, "build a fire in him. Get him excited. get him motivated." The employer did just that and now he reports of the same employee, "The man is a ball of fire."