Maintenance Engineering Vice President Dennis Leno “My Favorite Quotes”

“Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.” -Henry Ford




“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”- Henry Ford



Anyone who knows me knows of my love for quotes. Quotes have done a great deal for me over my life. They have been like road maps for me. Obviously the quotes I love most are those that seemed to be written for me. Those that gave me great advice at exactly the time I needed them.



However, there are others that are timeless and ageless, always giving me advice that is perfect no matter when I think about them. Therein lays the power of a quote. I believe they are a tool that can keep you very positive and excited.



In case you didn’t notice, this week we have used two of Henry Ford’s quotes. These are two of my all time favorites. What do these two quotes tell you? To me, they speak volumes about positive thinking and hard work; Two critical requirements to success.



Vice President Dennis Leno







Maintenance Engineering

“Frank’s Corner” – Tips from Maintenance Engineering’s All Time Top Producer. “Learning From Past Failures”

“If you separate what you did right from what you did wrong you can learn a lot more from failure than from a big success.” These were the words of Al Neuharth, founder and publisher of perhaps the most successful newspaper in the world, the USA Today. But there was no instant success for Al Neuharth, because as he said he learned from his earlier failures before the success of USA Today. We can all relate to this as the failure rate in presentations exceeds the success rate, but by learning from those failures our top reps become great salespeople and as a result are extremely successful and become the standard by which all sales reps are judged.

Frank Grendler

Maintenance Engineering

Maintenance Engineering President Curt Kesselring “Change In the 21st Century”

As we enter the 21st Century we are reminded of the incredible change that the world has seen in the past century! Up until a couple of hundred years ago, most every century was much like the one that preceded it. Primitive tools, human disease, agrarian lifestyles, and survival of the fittest were predominant descriptors.

The past century saw change accelerate to lighting speed. We have seen dramatic improvements in our lifestyles, health, and life expectancies. Fo every negative change there has been a dozen positive ones that have improved our lives. Yet there were naysayers every inch of the way. Every year non-believers contested every change. Yet those who created, advocated and implemented change most often won out, creating the most fantastic century in history. I for one consider myself incredibly luck to have been born into this time, and in this country, the greatest benefactor of these positive changes.

Change. We can fear it or we can embrace it. We can resist it or we can use it to take us to the next level. I have high goals for Maintenance Engineering in the next five years and they will require even more changes than we saw in the entire past 37 years. Yes, some changes will fail and that’s the risk we must take. However, with a strong, positive vision of the future we can together utilize change to transform Maintenance Engineering into a company which will benefit us all in ways we cannot yet imagine.

As we enter this new millennium, join me in making Maintenance Engineering an industry leader in positive, constructive, and profitable change which will cause us to grow. Let’s embrace change. Let’s use change to create an even better opportunity for us to take advantage of.

Curt Kesselring




President Maintenance Engineering