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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 want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not paying a just wage, not giving work,
only because one is looking at the bottom line,
at the budget of the company, seeking only profit -
that is against God.
- Pope Francis
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
Don't talk about what you have done
or what you are going to do.
- Thomas Jefferson
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Acknowledgment, award, appreciation.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Leaders are those who empower others.
- Bill Gates
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
- Anonymous
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
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
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
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
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
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
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 supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
Profit is a by-product of work;
happiness is its chief product.
- Henry Ford
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
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Working at a job you hate is unlikely
to bring you either happiness or success.
Do what you love. You are far more likely to gain success -
recognition and financial reward - if you are working
at something that inspires and excites you.
And, whether wealth follows or not, you will be happy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I always arrive late at the office,
but I make up for it by leaving early.
- Charles Lamb
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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