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'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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Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Winners Dream Big Dreams.
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Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Acknowledgment, award, appreciation.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
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.
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
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If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
- Anonymous
Give somebody a gold star - Today.
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When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
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.
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Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
Leaders are those who empower others.
- Bill Gates
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
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Profit is a by-product of work;
happiness is its chief product.
- Henry Ford
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
Don't aim at success.
The more you aim at it and make it a target,
the more you are going to miss it.
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued;
it must ensue, and it only does so as
the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication
to a cause greater than oneself.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
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
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
Don't talk about what you have done
or what you are going to do.
- Thomas Jefferson
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
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
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
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
While most managers spend their time attempting
to predict the future accurately -
and while that's valuable -
the best managers are able to generate a future
which was not going to happen otherwise -
that is, a future which was not predictable.
- Werner Erhard
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
I always arrive late at the office,
but I make up for it by leaving early.
- Charles Lamb
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
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
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.
But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy
is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
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
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
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