Fun Finds 4 Business: ThinkExist.com

It’s Friday and time again for "Fun Finds 4 Business." The other day I was looking for a quote by Calvin Coolidge. I had remembered enjoying this quote from my college days. The president had said something inspiring about perseverance, which I wanted to send to a friend who had recently started a business. Well, I looked it up and found that actually the quote was about persistence:

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of
educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are
omnipotent.”

—Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of United States

What was enjoyable about retrieving this memory was the Website that I used to find the quote. Now I love my dusty old quotation books as much as the next person, but these days there are quick-and-easy ways online to find notable sayings and passages. Here’s one site I think is tops: http://www.thinkexist.com/. I like this site not only for its depth of entries but also for its search versatility: keywords, author, nationality, country, topic, and most popular. In addition, ThinkExist enables you to bookmark and post your own favorite quotations. It also offers a free email service of a daily quote and a nice little widget to easily post these daily sayings to your website or blog.

So the next time you need to check a quotation in a document or manuscript, or add something creative to a marketing piece or sales brochure, or put some uplifting words into a card or email to friend or coworker—don’t forget that lovely staple: the concise quote. Because bear in mind: "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." —Mother Teresa.