Quotes About Transition

I don't feel the need to get out, but I can't work forever, so I guess I'd better think about it," said Paul Saginaw of Zingerman's. "Currently our exit strategy is death.

The mistake they make grows partly out of their tendency to regard the exit as simply an event, and a relatively distant one at that. But the exit is actually a critical phase of a business owner's journey and an integral part of the entrepreneurial experience. "It's like passing the 26.2-mile mark of a marathon, or crossing home plate after a home run

And yet the end result is not always a happy one, even for those who wind up with a pile of money on the table. Despite having absolute financial security, often for the first time in their lives, many owners find themselves dealing with unanticipated regrets, fighting against depression, and desperately in need of a new identity and sense of purpose. For them, life after the exit is a bleak period, and it can last for years.

buyout, a gift to your children, a liquidation of assets, or any of the other possible outcomes. Stage four is the transition. It begins with the completion of the deal and ends when you're fully engaged in whatever comes next. Until you've moved on—not just physically but psychologically—to a new venture, a new career, a redefined role, or even retirement, your exit isn't complete.

Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.

Change isn't always good. Sometimes changing things is a terrible mistake.

Thus the social order overthrown by a revolution is almost always better than the one immediately preceding it, and experience teaches us that, generally speaking, the most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it seeks to mend its ways.

Isn't that how it always is? Just when you think you've lost something so precious, you can't ever recover from it . . . and then, if you keep your eyes and heart open, you find that the loss has made room for something else of great value, something you would never have found otherwise?

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

When your rooster crows at the break of dawnLook out your window and I'll be goneYou're the reason I'm trav'lin' onDon't think twice, it's all right

The order isRapidly fadin'.And the first one nowWill later be lastFor the times they are a-changin'.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

By the year 2000 the United States as you know it will cease to exist!

They say life is a stream, that will find its' course.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love. Therefore we should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

Most people think rejection is the end. It's actually a beginning.

for the second half of life to be better than the first, you must make the choice to step outside of the safety of living on autopilot. You must wrestle with who you are, why you believe what you profess to believe about your life, and what you do to provide meaning and structure to your daily activities and relationships.

The key to a successful second half is not a change of jobs; it is a change of heart, a change in the way you view the world and order your life.

If learning prepares you to deal positively and productively with change, then it is more important now than ever before.

Regardless of where you are, I invite you, in the following pages, to discredit the view that the second half of your life will never measure up to the first. Instead of giving up and settling for life on its own terms, you are ready for new horizons, new challenges. You are ready to move from success to significance

One of the most common characteristics of a person who is nearing the end of the first half is that unquenchable desire to move from success to significance.

Halftime is the perfect opportunity to shift from trying to understand God to learning to know him. It is the time to humbly accept the fact that you may never fully understand him, but that you need to accept, by faith, that you are known and loved by him.