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Morley Winograd + Michael D. Hais, authors, "Millennial Momentum"

COLUMN = GENERATIONS

Millennial experts Morley Winograd and Michael Hais have had careers that include entertainment and media market research (Frank N. Magid Associates), a stint in the White House (Clinton-Gore second term), technology and communications (AT&T), academia (USC’s Marshall School of Business and the University of Detroit) and—where it all began for Mike & Morley—Michigan politics (polling and Democratic Party Chairman, respectively).

They teamed in 2007 to write the first of two highly reviewed books on Millennials. Today, they speak, consult and write on how Millennials are remaking every aspect of American life: entertainment, lifestyles, leadership, work, technology, government, politics, education and community.

Their first book, Millennial Makeover, correctly predicted Barack Obama’s 2008 win through his creative engagement of Millennials, especially with social media. The toughest reviewer at The New York Times named it one of her 10 favorite books of the year.

Their 2011 book, Millennial Momentum, examines how Millennials are remaking every aspect of American life: entertainment, lifestyles, leadership, work, technology government, politics, education, and community.

Based in Los Angeles, Mike & Morley are also on-air pundits, monthly commentators on America’s changing demographics for the National Journal and frequent contributors to The Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post and New Geography.

Click here to read their GENERATIONS column.

And click here to read futurist Chris Carbone’s review of Millennial Momentum.

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

– Andrew Carnegie

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”

– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt