Never kick a fresh Turd on a hot Day - Pres. Truman
"The measure of a great leader is his willingness to do what's right, even if it costs him everything" - Jeno Paulucci
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
It's not my job to motivate players. They bring
extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.
Lou Holtz 1937-, American
Football Coach
Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who
are not motivated.
Lou Holtz
The aim of marketing is to know and
understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells
itself.
Peter
Drucker
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter
Drucker
The entrepreneur always searches for
change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Peter
Drucker
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring
together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to
turn out the product.
Peter
Drucker
The most important thing in communication is hearing what
isn't said.
Peter
Drucker
The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have
practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
Peter
Drucker
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be
different.
Peter
Drucker
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the
worker but of the manager.
Peter
Drucker
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Peter
Drucker
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
Peter
Drucker
There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on
the job.
Peter
Drucker
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which
should not be done at all.
Peter
Drucker
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed
nothing else can be managed.
Peter
Drucker
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity
and advancement.
Peter
Drucker
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a
country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
Peter
Drucker
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and
hopes... but no plans.
Peter
Drucker
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new
industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
Peter
Drucker
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of
keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to
learn.
Peter
Drucker
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required
course.
Peter
Drucker
Some of us are like wheelbarrows, only useful
when pushed and easily upset.
Jack Herbert
Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
Sam
Walton
Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its
customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
Sam
Walton
High expectations are the key to everything.
Sam
Walton
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over
again, only even better this time.
Sam
Walton
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate,
to take things beyond where they've been.
Sam
Walton
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the
self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing
what they can accomplish.
Sam
Walton
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire
everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his
money somewhere else.
Sam
Walton
There's a lot more business out there in small town America
than I ever dreamed of.
Sam
Walton
We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're
vital to us. cause they are.
Sam
Walton
We're all working together; that's the secret.
Sam
Walton
Serve the classes, live with the
masses. Serve the masses, live with the classes.
John Jacob Astor
There is little success where there
is little laughter.
Andrew Carnegie
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll
end up working for one.
Bill
Gates
Life is not fair; get used to it.
Bill
Gates
Success is a lousy teacher. It
seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill
Gates
Formula for success: rise early, work
hard, strike oil.
J.
Paul Getty
Money is like manure. You have to
spread it around or it smells.
J.
Paul Getty
To succeed in business, to reach the
top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
J.
Paul Getty
To do a common thing uncommonly well
brings success.
Henry J. Heinz
An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.
Tom
Hopkins
Today, you have 100% of your life left.
Tom
Hopkins
I forgot to shake hands and be
friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
Lee
Iacocca
I have found that being honest is the
best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to
accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
Lee
Iacocca
I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their
way.
Lee
Iacocca
I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed
of the team.
Lee
Iacocca
Eagles don't flock, you have to find
them one at a time.
Ross
Perot
Inventories can be managed, but
people must be led.
Ross
Perot
Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.
Ross
Perot
Don't blame the marketing department.
The buck stops with the chief executive.
John
D. Rockefeller
I would rather earn 1% off a 100
people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
John
D. Rockefeller
If your only goal is to become rich,
you will never achieve it.
John
D. Rockefeller
There's no one to stop you but
yourself.
Dave Thomas
What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps
making money for somebody FOREVER.
Dave Thomas
You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to
be.
Dave Thomas
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
- Jeff BezosSuccess is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they cant lose.
- Bill GatesBusiness opportunities are like buses, theres always another one coming.
- Richard BransonI do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
- Henry FordDont worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.
- Guy KawasakiFor every sale you miss because youre too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because youre not enthusiastic enough.
- Zig ZiglarA business exists to create a customer
- Peter F. Drucker
My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had - every day Im learning something new. Fantasizing about the future is one of my favorite pastimes.
- Richard BransonYou cant just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, theyll want something new.
- Steve JobsWe dont want to climb Everest right now. Were not planning on knocking out Google. Our goal is to take our 20 million users, who are currently using us twice a month, and bump that up to four times a month. That doubles our market share.
- Jim LanzoneWikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did. Communities can build amazing things, but you have to be part of that community and you cant abuse them. You have to be very respectful of what their needs are.
- Jimmy Wales
Business opportunities are like buses, theres always another one coming. - Richard Branson
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
You
only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too
many things wrong.
Warren Buffett
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin
Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with high standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead.
Jennifer White
I use not only all the brains I have but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson
The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Woodrow Wilson
Don't agonize. It slows you down.
Isaac Asimov
Great
works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
In the matter of slavish imitation, man is the monkey's superior all the time. The average man is destitute of independence of opinion. He is not interested in contriving a opinion of his own, by study and reflection, but is only anxious to find out what his neighbor's opinion is and slavishly adopt it.
Mark Twain's Autobiography
It
is better to read the weather forecast before we pray for rain.
Mark Twain, More
Maxims of Mark
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Bok
An effective executive does not need to be a leader in the sense that the term is how most commonly used. Harry Truman did not have one ounce of charisma, for example, yet he was among the most effective chief executives in U.S. History. What made them all effective is that they followed the same eight practices: They asked, "what needs to be done?"; They asked, "what is the right for the enterprise?; They developed the section plans; They took responsibility for decisions; They took responsibility for communicating; They were focused on opportunities rather than problems; They ran productive meetings; They thought and said "we" rather than "I"; The first two practices gave them the knowledge they needed. The next four helped them convert this knowledge into effective action. The last two ensured that the whole organization felt responsible and accountable.
Peter F Drucker, Harvard Business Review, June 2004
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Albert Einstein, 'Out of My Later Years', 1950
The time will come I believe, though I shall not live to see it, when we shall have fairly true genealogical [phylogenetic] trees of each great kingdom of nature.
Charles Darwin to Thomas Huxley, 1857
The best qualities for investors are the ones Aristotle admired: moderation, common sense, restraint, modesty, and integrity. It's rare to find a successful wealth accumulator who isn't a solid citizen in the classical sense. Contrary to popular opinion, sharp dealing and a gambler's lust for the main chance are not the soul of good investing.
Glassman et al., Real world investing, The American Enterprise, July 2002
Few
things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark
Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
Wrinkles
should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator
Management
is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker
Nothing
is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford
To
have a great idea, have a lot of them.
Thomas Edison
There
is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old
ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and
they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new
combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass
that have been in use through all the ages.
Mark Twain
I
can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an
undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of
the possible outcome.
Golda Meir
Man
cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre Gide