Categories:
- Rallying the Team
- Personal Success
- Thoughts on Innovation
- Overcoming Challenges
- Conquering Fear
- Dealing with Failure
- Ins and Outs of Entrepreneurship
Rallying the Team
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Design is an agent of change, which can help us to make sense of what is happening and to turn it to our advantage.
If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth.
Nothing is easy. If you want to do nothing, that’s easy.
Terrible is the temptation to do good!
Adversity doesn’t build character, it reveals it.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
It’s not a good strategy until it costs you something to pursue.
God gave us 2 ears and 1 mouth for a reason.
To understand a company, spend time with its customers.
Be careful – a little success can create a whole lot of overhead.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.
If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.
Make sure that the best thing to happen to your customer today is you.
Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
Make no little plans.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts.
Good enough never is.
An entrepreneur is someone who shoots an arrow and then runs to move the target, so the arrow hits it.
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
You can’t really run the company by pissing off the scientists who do the work.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss in enthusiasm.
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
He that can’t endure the bad will not live to see the good.
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Even if you are on the right track, the train will run you over if you just sit there.
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
Strategy – is figuring out what is the most important thing for your company and deciding to focus on it and say no to everything else.
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves it’s amazing what they can accomplish.
If you don’t listen to your customers, someone else will.
If you presume, you are putting ‘P’ on your resume.
Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.
With good people, you can do anything. With bad people, nothing helps.
Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, and abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.
Choice is the enemy of decision.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
Always make new mistakes.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory!
I believe that smart people working hard will eventually get lucky.
I don’t want the revenue; I just want the profit.
You want to learn from experience, but you want to learn from other people’s experience when you can.
Entrepreneurship exists in the tiny space between madness and genius; and, its journey requires a few cross border violations across both madness and genius to get to the final destination.
A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
We’re not trying to entertain the critics… I’ll take my chances with the public.
There is nothing so depressing as boundless optimism.
Focus on doing things that can’t hurt and might help. You’ll always be ahead.
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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
I’ve made a lot of mistakes. I don’t have a lot of regrets.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.
In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning in indispensable.
Feed the strong, starve the weak. Lead with your strength and avoid protecting the weak – weak brands, weak products and weak people. Know your strengths and lead with them.
I don’t know what the price is, but the price knows what the price is.
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.