Business, you know, may bring money,
by Jane Austen

Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen

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Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen

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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau

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.

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

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

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 biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee

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

Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu

Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver

The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman

The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leaders are those who empower others.
- Bill Gates

Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter

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

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes

If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton

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

The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela

In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill

You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

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

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

A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

Acknowledgment, award, appreciation.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel

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

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

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie