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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
by Thomas Paine

'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

Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine

The strength and power of despotism
consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
- Thomas Paine

The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
But such is the irresistible nature of truth,
that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791


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Don't underestimate your abilities,
that's your boss's job.
- Anonymous

There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)

One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain


 

Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker

This report, by its very length, defends itself
against the risk of being read.
- Winston Churchill

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you
that you had the wrong job in the first place.
- Hal Lancaster

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

My father always told me that
all businessmen were sons of bitches,
but I never believed it till now.
- John F. Kennedy

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Arabic Proverb and Chinese Proverb

I always arrive late at the office,
but I make up for it by leaving early.
- Charles Lamb

Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
- Malcolm S. Forbes (wealthy publisher)

Let your sympathies and your compassion
be always with the under dog in the fight -
this is magnanimity;
but bet on the other one - this is business.
- Mark Twain

Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro

When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore

I think that there is nothing, not even crime,
more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself
than this incessant business.
- Henry David Thoreau

If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

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 man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus

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

Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you,
its first order of business is to preserve itself,
and the way it preserves itself
is to keep you from having any doubts,
and the way it keeps you from doubting
is to blind you to the way things really are.
- Philip Caputo

Discourage litigation.
Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.
As a peacemaker the lawyer has
superior opportunity of being a good man.
There will still be business enough.
- Abraham Lincoln

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker

It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Give somebody a gold star - Today.
- 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

The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Acknowledgment, award, appreciation.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford

Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins

It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker

Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton

The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
- Thomas Jefferson

All warfare is based on deception.
- Sun Tzu

Profit is a by-product of work;
happiness is its chief product.
- Henry Ford

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous

The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance

Keep your attention focused entirely
on what is truly your own concern,
and be clear that what belongs to others
is their business and none of yours.
- Epictetus

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu

To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu

Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer

Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth.
The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
- Mark Twain

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

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

War is a game that is played with a smile.
If you can't smile, grin.
If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
- Winston Churchill

Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business
that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko

Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror,
victory however long and hard the road may be;
for without victory, there is no survival.
- Winston Churchill

We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
- Edward R. Murrow

The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci


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