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Exploring how you could make a bad situation worse can sometimes tell you what not to do.
Harvey Mackay
You
Sometimes
Situation
Worse
Tell
Bad
Bad Situation
Could
Make
How
Exploring
Success is the sum of details.
Harvey S. Firestone
Success
Sum
Details
Success Is
The way of the pioneer is always rough.
Harvey S. Firestone
Way
Always
Pioneer
Rough
If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.
Harvey S. Firestone
Life
Leadership
You
Man
Business
Main
Ideas
Limit
Greatest
Greatest Asset
Any
Your
Asset
Need
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
Henry Ford
Today
History
Worth
Live
Only
Make
Tradition
Tinker
Want
Present
Dam
Any colour - so long as it's black.
Henry Ford
Black
Long
Colour
Any
Heart power is stronger than horsepower.
Henry J. Heinz
Heart
Stronger
Power
Than
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.
Henry J. Kaiser
Best
You
Competition
Live
Fearlessly
Relish
Having
Put
Within
Taste
Forth
Boldly
Found
As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.
Henry Kravis
Good
Failure
You
Yourself
Try
Face
Nothing
Out
Never
Pick
Wrong
Failing
Know
Until
Said
How
Go
Up
Going
Again
Really
Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it.
Henry Kravis
Buy
Fool
Money
Will
Long
Look
Because
Sell
Any
Us
Congratulate
Company
Last
Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know what's going on. It's a phony separation that people are making between the two.
Henry Mintzberg
People
Separation
Phony
Lead
Leaders
Between
Know
Making
Discouraging
Manage
Managers
Going
Quite
Who
Two
I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.
Henry Mintzberg
Science
Experience
Creativity
Management
Vision
Practice
Analysis
Draws
Insight
Lot
Craft
Crafts
Arts
Meaning
Certain
Use
Describe
Technique
Amount
My businesses are all related - retail, shopping centers, banking, real estate, and tourism development. Together they create synergy.
Henry Sy
Together
Shopping
Real Estate
Related
Synergy
Retail
Tourism
Development
Real
Banking
Estate
Centers
Create
Businesses
Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.
Herb Kelleher
Leadership
Responsibility
Power
Involves
Boats
Really
Should
Reserved
I'd say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that's a conventional and perhaps mundane answer, but my family was blown apart at the start of World War II.
Herb Kelleher
War
Family
Me
World
Mother
Made
Else
Say
More
Perhaps
Know
Answer
Than
Did
Blown
Difference
Anyone
Conventional
Anyone Else
Apart
Mundane
Start
World War
World War II
You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind.
Herbert V. Prochnow
Life
You
Sorry
Lost
Spent
Kind
Find
Stayed
Through
Never
Spoke
Go
Were
Won
May
Much
If you have a lemon, make lemonade.
Howard Gossage
You
Make
Lemon
Lemonade
Money can't buy happiness.
Howard Hughes
Happiness
Buy
Money
I believe in what I call 'the surfer's theory.' You see a really, really big wave. You keep surfing, keep going forward. You just don't look back.
Howard Lutnick
You
Big
Believe
Wave
Back
See
Look
Call
Surfing
Going
Just
Really
Theory
Forward
Keep
Keep Going
Companies should not have a singular view of profitability. There needs to be a balance between commerce and social responsibility... The companies that are authentic about it will wind up as the companies that make more money.
Howard Schultz
Needs
Balance
Money
Will
Responsibility
Wind
About
More
Between
Make
Singular
Up
Authentic
Commerce
Social
Should
View
Companies
Social Responsibility
Profitability
Great companies that build an enduring brand have an emotional relationship with customers that has no barrier. And that emotional relationship is on the most important characteristic, which is trust.
Howard Schultz
Great
Relationship
Trust
Important
Build
Characteristic
Emotional
Most
Brand
The Most Important
Enduring
Which
Customers
Companies
Barrier
It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that heritage. It's where I'm from, who I am.
Howard Schultz
People
Matter
Heritage
Meet
Brooklyn
Proud
Am
Go
Ironic
Where
Who
My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recognize - and by people I'm meaning Washington - don't recognize the sense of urgency and the fact that I don't think this is a crisis anymore. I think it's an emergency.
Howard Schultz
People
Sense
Think
Mediocrity
Crisis
Recognize
Emergency
Drifting
Fact
Towards
Concern
America
Anymore
Biggest
Urgency
Meaning
Washington
China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
Howard Schultz
Coffee
Country
Has-Been
Drinkers
Been
China
Them
Turned
Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can't cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.
Howard Schultz
You
Business
Prosperity
Strategy
Other
Enough
Side
Way
Costs
Prices
Putting
Sale
Sustainable
Cut
Cutting
Your
Things
Save
My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep'. To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.
Howard Schultz
Me
You
Age
Yourself
Mother
Young
Resources
Define
Some
Pretty
Something
Shallow
She
Said
Label
Taught
Young Age
Company
Keep
Level
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