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Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your read more
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the read more
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is read more
A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the read more
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
If you can build a business up big enough, it is respectable.
If you can build a business up big enough, it is respectable.
You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl read more
You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what read more
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.
The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly read more
The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering
trade.
The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering
trade.
