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New Year!
We are looking forward to an
exciting new year, and an exciting new time for the valley and the global
community! . . .
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and recruiting efforts! If you’re
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Hot Trends and Recommendations for
the Community
Beginning in January 2012, we will send you weekly articles and links about a technology or business model innovation in the clean
energy space. We welcome you to submit your 100-word description, photo and
link for future articles to info@svcleanenergy.com, or you can complete the adjacent form.
Profiles in Innovation
Starting in January 2012,
FountainBlue will be highlighting a clean energy entrepreneur. If you are interested in
nominating a company for an upcoming newsletter, please visit or e-mail your
profile to info@svcleanenergy.com
with the following information:
Name and Company:
100-word description of why it is
innovative:
Link for more information
URL with picture of innovation.
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This Month’s Leadership Quotes
Each month, we celebrate a different leadership
theme, with a different quote each day from a recognized, or not-so-well-known
leader. November Theme: Humility: Humbly embrace and celebrate your successes,
but focus more on empowering others, and taking the next step forward. This
week’s quotes are listed, and we also welcome you to recommend YOUR favorite
quote on this month's theme.
Be humble about your gifts, your
talents, your circumstances. It could have easily gone the other way! Linda
Holroyd, FountainBlue
Do as much as possible and talk of
yourself as little as possible. Sallust
The humblest is the peer of the most
powerful. John Marshall Harlan
A fool thinks himself to be wise,
but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare
A great man is always willing to be
little. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The knowledge of yourself will
preserve you from vanity. Miguel de Cervantes
No one is content with his fortune,
nor discontent with his intellect. Madame Antoinette Deshoulieres
The attentions I am receiving are
intended more for my country than for me personally. Ulysses S. Grant
True humility comes from a broader,
wiser perspective. It mirrors the compassion and experience of the leader.
Linda Holroyd, FountainBlue
A bore is a person who opens his mouth
and puts his feats in it. Henry Ford
To be humble to superiors is duty,
to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. Benjamin Franklin
I claim to be a simple individual
liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have
humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. Mahatma Gandhi
It is better to deserve honors and
not have them than to have them and not deserve them. Mark Twain
He who knows best knows how little
he knows. Thomas Jefferson
The graveyards are full of people
the world could not do without. Elbert Hubbard
Conceit spoils the finest genius.
Louisa May Alcott
I am only an average man, but I work
harder at it than the average man. Theodore Roosevelt
If I have seen further than others,
it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton
Pride and excess bring disaster for
man. Xun Zi
Humility is a key ingredient to both
peace of mind, and sense of purpose. Linda Holroyd, FountainBlue
When a man is wrapped up in himself,
he makes a pretty small package. John Ruskin
You probably wouldn't worry about
what people think of you if you knew how seldom they do. Olin Miller
The learning and knowledge that we
have is but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. Plato
The first test of a truly great man is
his humility. John Ruskin
Those who think they know it all are
very annoying to those of us who do. Robert Mueller
The great charm of all power is
modesty. Louisa May Alcott
Humility is the only true wisdom by
which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. George Arliss
It was hard to make fun of him,
because he had so much fun making fun of himself. James Barron
True humility is intelligent self
respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves.
Ralph W. Sockman
Even if you start the snowball
rolling down the hill, remember that you are also just another snowflake going
along for the ride. Linda Holroyd, FountainBlue
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