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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter Drucker
There is nothing so useless as doing effeciently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker
Efficiency is doing better than what is already being done.
Peter Drucker
It is not "making friends and influencing people" - that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights.
Peter Drucker
Leadership is not magnetic personality - that can just as well be a glib tongue.
Peter Drucker
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Peter Drucker
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
Peter Drucker
The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.
Vincent Van Gogh
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valéry
If you rest, you rust.
Helen Hayes
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis Bacon
Always do right. That will gratify some of the people, and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough.
Henry Royce
Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion, and humility.
John McCain
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
James Allen
Quality is not an act. It is a habit.
Aristotle
The less I say the more my work gets done.
Elton John
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
Fall seven times. Stand up eight.
Japanese proverb
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
Marian Wright Edelman
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
The last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl
The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion.
Abraham Lincoln
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher
Dare to be naive.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.
Thomas Henry Huxley
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Thomas Edison
Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself.
Gary Comer
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are what we repeatedly do.
Aristotle
In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.
Bobby McFerrin
All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go.
Norman Vincent Peale
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
B.C. Forbes
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
Lee Iacocca
You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.
Brandi Chastain
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Courage is the human virtue that counts most – courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That is all any of us have.
Robert Frost
There's a way to do it better -- find it.
Thomas Edison
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Continuous effort -- not strength or intelligence -- is the key to unlocking our potential.
Sir Winston Churchill
Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
Julie Andrews
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
Theodor Seuss Geisel
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Thomas Henry Huxley
You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.
Howard Schultz
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
Dag Hammarskjold
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde
If there is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to put yourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view—as well as your own..
Henry Ford
Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
Bonnie Blair
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Raymond Chandler
The future doesn't just happen -- it's shaped by decisions.
Paul Tagliabue
Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.
Helen Hayes
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Peter Drucker
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
Samuel Goldwyn
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Thomas J. Watson
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle -- when the sun comes up, you had better be running.
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Sir Winston Churchill
All things are possible until they are proved impossible -- and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
Pearl S. Buck
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Vincent van Gogh
The man who does things makes mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all -- doing nothing.
Benjamin Franklin
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother Teresa
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Henry Ford
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
August W. Hare
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free - and worth a fortune.
Sam Walton
The way to get started is to stop talking and start doing.
Walt Disney
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Goethe
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
William Bernbach
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day.
Gloria Steinem
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the fundamentals.
Jim Rohn
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
Frank Scully
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Goethe
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Sallust
I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Isaac Asimov
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
English proverb
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves... the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker
