Moving Words – Cold
Written by Timothy Brady. “It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Teilhard de Chardin, a French idealist/philosopher and Jesuit priest was trained as a paleontologist and geologist and helped discover Peking Man.) With just a slight update […]
Moving Words – Moving
Written by Timothy Brady. “It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.” – Theodore Roosevelt Moving is what we do. It’s interesting that even though Teddy Roosevelt wasn’t speaking in terms of the moving industry, he aptly described what we do as […]
Moving Words – Basics
Written by Timothy Brady. “Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.” – Joan Blades Every successful business person works from business basics. However, the truly successful will take those basics and […]
Moving Words – Technology
Written by Timothy Brady. “The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” – Bill Gates Technology, as long as it’s treated like any tool and not a […]
Moving Words – Logging
Written by Timothy Brady. “Because this issue is of vital importance to our members and all small business truckers, we are reviewing our next steps to continue our challenge against this regulation.” – Jim Johnston, President, OOIDA This was a statement released by the Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association pertaining to the ruling regarding the U.S. […]
Moving Words – Charity
Written by Timothy Brady. Charity begins at home, but should not end there. – Thomas Fuller The moving industry and charity are synonymous with one another. Since our job is to move lives from one location to another, it couldn’t be done without the charitable and giving attitudes of those who work in the industry. […]
Moving Words – Impossible
Written by Timothy Brady. ”Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” Saint Francis of Assisi This quote describes the moving business and what we do better than any other quote I’ve come across so far. Think about the process of completing a move. From first shipper […]
Moving Words – Expedient
Written by Timothy Brady. “A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.” Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus; the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.) In the moving and storage game, ‘expediency’ is the enemy, not our friend. The definition of expedient, according to Merriam-Webster: characterized by concern with what […]
Moving Words – Mobility
Written by Timothy Brady. “The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility – a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.” – John Richard Jefferies, noted English nature writer Mobility is what drives the moving business. From the nature of our American culture in which people are always […]
Moving Words – Resilience
Written by Timothy Brady. “Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.” Jamais Cascio (San Francisco Bay Area-based author and futurist) Anyone who’s in the moving industry understands the need to be resilient in their day-to-day operations and in their long-term goals. This […]
