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The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.
Peter Thiel
You
Learning
People
Will
Mark
Mark Zuckerberg
System
Network
Operating
Operating System
Social
Them
Next
Bill
Page
Bill Gates
Engine
Company
Search
Search Engine
Larry
Start
Copying
Gates
He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.
Ray Dalio
Will
Eat
He
Glass
Shattered
Crystal
Crystal Ball
Ball
Who
Lives
One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.
Reid Hoffman
You
Business
Challenges
Trust
People
Strong
Smart
Strangers
Cold
Everybody
Relationships
Networking
Know
Calls
Making
Dedicated
Team
Help
Who
Actually
Player
Thinks
Especially when you're at a high level in an organization, criticism can be devastating to an employee. I prefer to praise employees for what they're doing right, and it tends to lead to them doing more of the same. Not always, but it's the way I choose to bet.
Richard Branson
You
Organization
Criticism
Employees
Way
High
High Level
Bet
More
Tends
Devastating
Lead
Employee
Always
Praise
Doing
Same
Prefer
Them
Choose
Right
Level
Can you imagine what a different world we will live in when businesses do what's right for the communities and the environment in everything they do?
Richard Branson
You
World
Will
Live
Everything
Environment
Different
Communities
Businesses
Different World
Right
Imagine
Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.
Rick Rubin
You
Looking
Looking Back
Control
Back
Everything
Way
Say
Kind
Would
Outcome
Had
Supposed
Been
Just
Different
Unfold
Happen
Happens
Watch
Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game that's most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing.
Rob Manuel
You
Game
Sometimes
Amazing
Hood
Those
Thousands
See
Magic
About
Feats
Between
Most
Most Amazing
Without
Always
Hear
Lines
Impressive
Happen
Happens
Noticing
Gaming
Even
Code
If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
Sam Walton
Good
You
Everybody
Way
Find
Exactly
One-Way
Direction
Doing
Opposite
Opposite Direction
Going
Your
Good Chance
Niche
Chance
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
Sam Walton
Business
Everything
Your
Associates
Appreciate
We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
Sam Walton
Cause
Folks
Vital
Know
Interested
Them
Us
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
Sam Walton
Wisdom
Other
Way
Go
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Upstream
Ignore
Swim
You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
Sam Walton
You
Business
Brilliant
Mistakes
Too
Out
Run
Recover
Make
Operation
Inefficient
Still
Go
Lot
Efficient
Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.
Sanford I. Weill
Winner
Important
Learn
Because
How
Loser
We want Google to be the third half of your brain.
Sergey Brin
Half
Google
Brain
Want
Your
Third
The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.
Simon Mainwaring
Success
Accountability
Keys
Brand
Authenticity
Transparency
The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.
Soichiro Honda
Life
Soul
Value Of Life
Value
Has-Been
How
How Many Times
Been
Stirred
Times
Your
Measured
Many
Deeply
Every day should be a good day. People fool themselves that they'll be here forever.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Good
Day
Fool
Every Day
People
Good Day
Every
Forever
Themselves
Should
Here
When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.
Stephen Covey
Positive
Home
Strength
Character
Will
Positive Influence
Security
Potential
Developing
Institution
Talents
Effectively
Child
Personal
Influence
Substitute
Skills
Unique
Compare
Ever
Interpersonal
Inner
Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.
Stephen Covey
Attitude
Space
Our
Response
Between
Stimulus
Where
Choose
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Stephen Covey
Strength
Great
Character
Heart
Great Deal
Values
Sense
Possess
Out
Security
Must
Rather
Takes
Himself
Principles
Deal
Genuinely
Quickly
Than
Person
Order
Pity
Apologize
Deep
Fundamental
Fundamental Principles
Every time you think the problem is 'out there,' that very thought is the problem.
Stephen Covey
Time
You
Problem
Thought
Every
Think
Every Time
Out
Very
An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.
Stephen Covey
Success
Knowledge
Opportunity
Collective
Way
Individuals
Leads
Empowered
Which
Succeed
Personally
Organisation
Skill
Desire
You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
Steve Case
Strength
You
People
Recognize
Along
Also
Get
Different
Personalities
Perspectives
Different People
Different Personalities
Different Perspectives
Team
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Steve Jobs
Time
You
Try
Give
Something
Something New
New
Built
Get
Just
Want
Them
Customers
Ask
Then
By The Time
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Steve Jobs
You
Innovation
People
Money
Nothing
Spending
Mac
About
More
How
Least
How Much
Came
Dollars
Led
Up
Times
Get
Much
Many
Apple
My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.
Steve Jobs
Business
Beatles
Negative
Other
Others
Sum
Total
Guys
Tendencies
Check
Balanced
Greater
Parts
Were
Than
Model
Each
Four
Kept
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