Inspirational New Year Quotes For Business Cheers

The beginning of the year is a great time not only for personal renewals or resolutions, but also for refreshing your professional connections from various sectors. Sending thoughtful New Year greetings to current and potential clients or partners is a good way to keep your company's products and/or services at the top of their minds, especially during such a period when business plans and strategies are likely being formed. As with other business greetings, though, it is always best to keep your messages short and simple, but warm and sincere, so you can spread some good will and thereby make a sufficiently good impression on existing as well as prospective clients. Below are a few memorable quotes from famous people that may work perfectly for your New Year business greetings:

·         “Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• “Every man should be born again on the first of January. Start with a fresh page.” - Henry Ward Beecher

• “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”  - Abraham Lincoln

The Greeting Card: From Papyrus Scrolls to Digital Cards

Made of cardboard with printed images or text, greeting cards are inexpensive ways of expressing concern for other people. Greeting cards have become quite common objects in the lives of people, that even the digital virtual world has weighed in. Did you ever wonder how humans began to exchange notes to express sympathy or other sentiments? How simple cards can mean the world through the power of words?

The act of writing down one's sentiments in the form of greeting notes can be traced back to ancient Egypt. Historians believe that ancient Egyptians wrote greetings on papyrus scrolls that are received by messengers and passed on to their addressees.

During the early 1400s, handmade paper cards with greetings on them passed around in Europe, while the Germans, in particular, used woodcuts as greeting cards.  Around the mid-1400s, exchanging handmade Valentine cards began; in fact, the oldest Valentine still in possession is preserved in the British Museum.

It wasn't until the 1850s that companies started mass producing cards, mainly due to the technological breakthroughs of the printing press and postal services. Today, even though cards are increasingly being sent through the Internet, many people still buy a card from a store.

So next time you pick out a card for someone you appreciate, take a moment to  acknowledge just how far your humble greeting card has changed through time.