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May you find great value in these Business quotes and sayings.
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
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Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
The glue that holds all relationships together -
including the relationship between; the leader and the led
is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
- Brian Tracy
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
leading by example creates a degree of
loyalty and overall success
that cannot be achieved through
issuing orders from a lofty office.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have an important point to make,
don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver.
Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again.
Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
- Winston Churchill
If you plan for a year, plant a seed.
If for ten years, plant a tree.
If for a hundred years, teach the people.
When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest.
When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests.
- Kuan Chung
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
Leaders are those who empower others.
- Bill Gates
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Profit is a by-product of work;
happiness is its chief product.
- Henry Ford
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
- Anonymous
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The signs of outstanding leadership
appear primarily among the followers.
Are the followers reaching their potential?
Are they learning? Serving?
Do they achieve the required results?
Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
- Max De Pree
Give somebody a gold star - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind
a mental picture of yourself as succeeding.
Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade.
Your mind will seek to develop the picture...
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
- Norman Vincent Peale
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill
You can close more business in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
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