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[Quote No.41291] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"...he [or she] who would study nature in its wildness and variety [and find new paths for society's benefit], must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice." - Washington Irving
(1783-1859), writer
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[Quote No.41299] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control." - Lao-tzu
Tao Te Ching, 8
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[Quote No.41312] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"As your career develops and you get promotions and more responsibility for projects and people, you should remember the old saying, 'While it is nice to be important, it is more important to be nice.' " - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.41325] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"...when no man [or woman] may use physical force [or fraud] to extort the consent of another, it is the best product [in a competitive free market] and the best judgment that win [along with the customer] in every field of human endeavor." - Ayn Rand
Philosopher and author. Quote from her book, 'For the New Intellectual'.
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[Quote No.41332] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"Focus on doing the right thing, on being a good human being. The results will take care of themselves." - Andrew Cherngs
Chairman of the Panda Express fast-food chain. Quoted in 'Reader's Digest', November 2007, p. 62.
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[Quote No.41397] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"[All politicians, military and business leaders should be careful not to let power go to their head or else they will soon lose their humility, perspective, efficacy and power. Remember...] Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. [Knowing this the Romans to keep their successful Roman Generals humble when they returned, so the story goes they were always accompanied by a slave who kept repeating to them as the crowd cheered, 'Respice te, hominem te memento' ('Look behind you, remember you are only a man') and 'Memento mori' ('Remember (that you are) mortal').]" - John Adams
(1735 – 1826), American Founding Father, lawyer, statesman, diplomat, political theorist and the second President of the United States of America.
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[Quote No.41402] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"It is easy to be heavy; hard to be light [when a leader, but light is better] ." - G.K. Chesterton
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[Quote No.41434] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as sheep." - Madonna
(1958 - ), born Madonna Louise Ciccone, is an American singer, songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. She has sold more than 300 million records worldwide and is recognized as the world's top-selling female recording artist of all time by Guinness World Records.
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[Quote No.41442] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness." - Confucius
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[Quote No.41444] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it." - Ignacy Jan Paderewski
(1860 – 1941), Polish pianist, composer, diplomat, politician, and the second Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland.
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[Quote No.41452] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"Censure [criticism] is the tax a man [or woman] pays to the public for being eminent [famous]." - Jonathan Swift
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[Quote No.41455] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things!" - R. Buckminster Fuller
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[Quote No.41461] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think." - Kenneth Cork
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[Quote No.41477] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier!" - Richard Marcinko
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[Quote No.41485] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point... You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there." - Irving Berlin
(1888 - 1989), famous songwriter.
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[Quote No.41488] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"All good song-writers have no more than half a dozen good tunes in their systems, and if they have that many, they are liberally blessed. [In his songwriting career, he put twenty five songs at the top of the charts, but he had composed over 1,500.]" - Irving Berlin
(1888 - 1989), famous songwriter.
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[Quote No.41503] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"We are [unfortunately] prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast. [Many of us are not very good at delaying gratification and taking pleasure and gratitude out of small things, but that is a big part of achieving any difficult thing.]" - Horace Mann
(1796 - 1859), famous American lawyer, politician and then educational administrator.
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[Quote No.41505] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour!" - Golda Meir
(1898 - 1978), Prime Minister of Israel
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[Quote No.41512] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers." - Harry S Truman
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[Quote No.41520] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can have." - Theodore H. White
Respected US journalist
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[Quote No.41522] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility." - Rabindranath Tagore
Indian poet
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[Quote No.41656] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"The King that followeth Truth, and ruleth according to Justice, shall reign quietly: but he that doth the contrary, seeketh another to reign for him." - Pythagoras
(circa 582 BC – circa 496 BC), Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician and scientist.
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[Quote No.41665] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good!" - Pythagoras
(circa 582 BC – circa 496 BC), Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician and scientist.
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[Quote No.41780] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." - John F. Kennedy
US President
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[Quote No.41801] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men [and women] to see by." - Felix Adler
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[Quote No.41857] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom." - Bob Dylan
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[Quote No.42028] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use." - Friedrich Hayek
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[Quote No.42107] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"Humanity's most valuable assets have been the non-conformists [those who are 'different', radical individuals. Therefore the importance of supporting individual human rights, in particular liberty, that allows the individualism, which is the soul of all great creativity, whether in art or business, and from which all human progress has come]. Were it not for the non-conformists, he who refuses to be satisfied to go along with the continuance of things as they are, and insists upon attempting to find new ways of bettering things, the world would have known little progress, indeed." - Josiah William Gitt
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[Quote No.42138] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"[Capitalism is based on voluntary (non-coerced) trade (exchange):] Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favor, and show them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them ... It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." - Adam Smith
Philosopher. Quote from his famous book on economics, 'Wealth of Nations' (1776).
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[Quote No.42184] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"In the beginning of a change the [radical, innovator or] patriot is a scarce man and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him for then it costs nothing to be a [radical, innovator or] patriot." - Mark Twain
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[Quote No.42187] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"A discriminating irreverence [to authority and tradition] is the creator and protector of human liberty [individuality and creative innovation]!" - Mark Twain
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[Quote No.42226] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"[If you have a choice] Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it." - Henry David Thoreau
(1817 - 1862) American Author
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[Quote No.42250] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"The unity of great ideas and the commercial spirit — here are the things that make life dramatic and exciting. Poets of old wrote of battles and wars, of kings and their exploits, as if these were the things that shape history. It’s not true. The best that history offers humanity is shaped by the producers and the entrepreneurs who serve others in peace through creativity." - Jeffrey Tucker
publisher and executive editor of Laissez-Faire Books, the Primus inter pares of the Laissez Faire Club, and the author of 'Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo' and 'It's a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes', among thousands of articles. Quote from his article, 'History of the Club, Part 2', May 23, 2012. [http://lfb.org/today/history-of-the-club-part-2/ ]
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[Quote No.42251] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"...every act of entrepreneurship is a leap into the unknown. People who like stories of successful businesses fail to appreciate this. In retrospect, every success seems inevitable, just a matter of going through the paces. Data of history always look this way, like the unfolding of a coherent story with a beginning, middle and end.
In the thick of the building process (which never ends!), however, the future is uncertain and the results unknown. As if in a dark room, you use whatever signals you have to find your way forward. It requires a combination of intuition, attention to accounting data, wise judgment, careful monitoring of consumer feedback. The risks are always present, and the failure rate is extremely high. It is always an uphill struggle, especially in these times, when the whole of leviathan [government] seems to conspire against success.
Many scholars have written about that special cast of mind that characterizes entrepreneurship, scholars such as Ludwig von Mises, Joseph Schumpeter and Israel Kirzner. Entrepreneurship requires the imagination to see that the world can be different from what it is today, to believe that new knowledge can emerge and be acted upon in a manner that shifts the given reality into something better.
This is a rare cast of mind even for individuals. It is especially difficult to embed this outlook in an institution like a business firm. It is an outlook that is cultivated through outstanding and imaginative leadership, attentive and accomplished employees at all levels, a widespread tolerance for living with risk and uncertainty and a culture of adaptability and flexibility that is pervasive throughout an organization.
This is true whether the business is tiny or gigantic, the lemonade stand or multinational conglomerate. Every business faces the same unknowns. Tomorrow is a blank page. For those who want to see beautiful images appear, there can be no rest. They must have that hunger for the new, and the ability to live with the belief that the answer is out there but has not yet revealed itself. In this sense, an entrepreneurial firm lives on faith. There is no infallible formula for making it work.
These features are completely absent in government bureaucracy. Bureaucracies see only what exists and are unprepared for change. They want stability and conformity. They certainly cannot and will not lead that change. This is why government is not in a position to keep up with our times, much less manage them. This is why societies that are dominated by bureaucracies dry up and die." - Jeffrey Tucker
publisher and executive editor of Laissez-Faire Books, the Primus inter pares of the Laissez Faire Club, and the author of 'Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo' and 'It's a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes', among thousands of articles. Quote from his article, 'History of the Club, Part 2', May 23, 2012. [http://lfb.org/today/history-of-the-club-part-2/ ]
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[Quote No.42253] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"Humanity's most valuable assets have been the non-conformists [the radical individualists, those that in Henry Thoreau's words hear 'a different drummer']. Were it not for the non-conformists, he [or she] who refuses to be satisfied to go along with the continuance of things as they are, and insists upon attempting to find new ways of bettering things, the world would have known little progress [in knowledge, work or living standards], indeed." - Josiah William Gitt
(1884 - 1973), Quote from Gazette and Daily, 2 February 1957.
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[Quote No.42303] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle
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[Quote No.42321] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves!!" - Tryon Edwards
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[Quote No.42333] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"A man who cannot [allow himself the chance to] make mistakes cannot do anything." - Bernard Magazine
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[Quote No.42340] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength!" - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
(1803 - 1873), author
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[Quote No.42367] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"The final test of a leader is that he [or she] leaves behind him [or her] in other men [and women] the conviction and the will to carry on." - Walter Lippman
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[Quote No.42371] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"You can always have it better. If you try...[This is the right attitude for a leader:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better." - Alex Kapranos
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[Quote No.42374] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds [reason-logic] and their hearts [passion-emotions]." - Rupert Murdoch
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[Quote No.42384] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"Passion is the genesis of genius!" - Tony Robbins
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[Quote No.42396] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"[Freedom, individualism and being yourself, so long as it doesn't hurt the physical person or property of another:]
There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities [uniqueness]!" - Ursula K. Le Guin
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[Quote No.42417] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"[Freedom, individualism and being yourself, so long as it doesn't hurt the physical person or property of another:]
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost
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[Quote No.42430] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"[Freedom, individualism and being yourself, so long as it doesn't hurt the physical person or property of another:] To be outstanding means - quite literally - to stand out from your peers. And you will never stand out if your goal in life is to fit in." - Dr. Mardy Grothe
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[Quote No.42477] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous!" - Oscar Wilde
Quote from his essay, ‘The Soul of Man under Socialism’, published 1891
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[Quote No.42484] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"...human ingenuity can usually overcome even the most intractable problems. I cannot count the number of times I used to say to myself 'we’re cactus' only to sit in a room with a bright bunch of guys and come up with durable solutions. There are intelligent and executable answers to almost all commercial issues. Yet most people are intrinsically problem-orientated and find the search for solutions innately challenging. My message: be positive and condition yourself to always focus on identifying answers!!" - Christopher Joye
Australian financial economist and a director of Yellow Brick Road Funds Management and Rismark. Quote from an article published on Business Spectator website 31 May 2012. [http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Joye-unplugged-on-property-small-business--Househo-pd20120531-UT3VC?opendocument&src=rss ]
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[Quote No.42658] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"[The engineer Buckminster Fuller is often cited for his use of trim tabs as a metaphor for leadership and personal empowerment:]
Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary — the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there's a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trim tab.
It's a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trim tab. Society thinks it's going right by you, that it's left you altogether. But if you're doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go.
So I said, call me Trim Tab." - Buckminster 'Bucky' Fuller
(1895 – 1983), American systems theorist, architect, engineer, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. Quote from his interview in the February 1972 issue of Playboy. The official newsletter of the Buckminster Fuller Institute is called 'Trimtab'. On his grave it says, 'Call me Trim Tab'. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_tab ]
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[Quote No.42686] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"We don't grow unless we take risks!" - James E. Burke
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