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Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Robert Half
Failure
Laziness
Secret
Only
Fails
Person
Goes
Ingredient
Who
Kept
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
Sam Walton
Words
Worth
Free
Few
Nothing
Else
Absolutely
Absolutely Free
Sincere
Well-Timed
Praise
Quite
Substitute
Fortune
A founder can carry an institution only so far, and then others have to step in, even the alumni. That's how an institution becomes one.
Shiv Nadar
Others
Carry
Only
Step
Institution
Alumni
Becomes
How
Far
Then
Even
Founder
Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
Stephen Covey
Better
Our
Synergy
Way
Than
Your
Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.
Stephen Covey
Blame
People
Behavior
Find
Physical
Environment
Reactive
Affected
Sources
Often
External
You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.
Stephen Covey
You
Yourself
Problems
Way
Out
Talk
Behave
Your
It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.
Steve Jobs
Faith
Technology
People
If you're gonna make connections which are innovative... you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.
Steve Jobs
You
Else
Everyone
Innovative
Everyone Else
Bag
Make
Does
Same
Experiences
Which
Gonna
Connections
What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.
Steve Jobs
Change
People
World
Job
Think
Change The World
About
Outside
Computers
Make
Make A Difference
Box
Get
Done
Just
Difference
Want
After
Them
Create
Use
Help
Who
Apple
Things
I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
Steve Jobs
Life
Great
You
Respect
My Life
Changes
Everybody
Incremental
Tells
More
Through
Great Respect
Emotionally
Failed
Know
Attracted
Period
Sort
Because
Always
Go
Been
Improvement
Revolutionary
Done
Where
Much
Why
Harder
Thing
Stressful
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
Steve Jobs
You
Quality
Way
Carried
Through
Well
Aesthetic
Night
Sleep
When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
Steve Jobs
Beautiful
You
Will
Back
Carpenter
Though
See
Faces
Nobody
Know
Piece
Making
Chest
Wall
Going
Wood
Use
Even
Ever
Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.
Thomas J. Watson
Time
People
Some People
Big
Else
Everyone
Considerate
Everything
Everything Else
Circumstances
Some
Above
Generous
Courteous
Just
Really
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
Tom Peters
Leadership
Management
Nurturing
Telling
About
Arranging
Enhancing
You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
W. Clement Stone
You
Yourself
Power
Whatever
Every
Say
Something
Only
Had
True
Forced
Always
Were
May
Want
Choice
Act
Choose
Actually
If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.
Warren Buffett
Myself
Class
People
Better
Think
Further
High
More
High-End
Had
Like
Lot
End
Than
Upper
Maybe
Middle
Middle Class
Anything
Taxes
Cut
Lower
Should
Paying
Even
Ever
Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.
Wayne Huizenga
Great
Yourself
People
Surround Yourself
Great People
Prosper
Make
Surround
Businesses
As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Alain Dehaze
Change
Communication
Creativity
World
Live
Ability
Unpredictable
Imperative
Alongside
Learn
Problem-Solving
Communication Skills
Skills
Adapt
Diversity requires commitment. Achieving the superior performance diversity can produce needs further action - most notably, a commitment to develop a culture of inclusion. People do not just need to be different, they need to be fully involved and feel their voices are heard.
Alain Dehaze
Needs
Culture
Commitment
People
Superior
Diversity
Action
Further
Be Different
Voices
Develop
Feel
Performance
Most
Involved
Heard
Just
Different
Achieving
Produce
Requires
Fully
Inclusion
Need
Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.
Alan Cohen
Life
Reflection
Life Is A
Everyone
Our
Everything
Inside
Something
Up
Happening
Us
Shows
You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.
Alan Cohen
Life
You
Integrity
Living
Inside
Outside
Matches
Who
Liberalism has never been about establishing a universal standard. Liberalism is simply intellectual cover for those wanting to gain political power and increase the size of the state.
Andrew Breitbart
Political
Political Power
Power
Increase
State
Liberalism
Those
About
Never
Simply
Cover
Been
Intellectual
Establishing
Size
Wanting
Gain
Standard
Universal
Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
Andrew Carnegie
Honesty
First
My Motto
Concentration
Industry
Motto
Then
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
Andrew Carnegie
Day
You
Every
Born
Something
Performed
Since
Because
Were
Wanted
Act
Ever
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
Bernard Baruch
Life
Forgiveness
You
Long
Before
Everybody
Everything
Secrets
Bed
Go
Forgive
Fruitful
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
Bill Gates
Environmental
Needs
Change
Problem
Solved
Absolutely
Terrible
Climate
Priority
Climate Change
Huge
Deserves
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