“The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the
guffaws of scoffers.”
-  Kahlil Gibran, “A Handful of Sand on the Shore”

“No pessimist ever learned the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or
opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
- Helen Keller

“A will finds a way.”
- Orison Swett Marden

“Every exit is an entry somewhere.”
- Tom Stoppard

“The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
- Oscar Wilde, “Lady Windemere’s Fan”

“You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.”
- Ziggy

“Attitude produces character, and character produces hope.”
- Mark Brunett

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“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
- Francis Bacon

“The way to miss success is to miss the opportunity.”
- Victor Chasles

“We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.”
- Walt Kelly

“Opportunity has power over all things.”
- Sophocles

“An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every
opportunity.”
- Sir Winston Churchill

“If it exists, it’s possible.”
- John P. Grier

“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.”
- Ann Landers

“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is
not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.”
- Orison Swett Marden

“Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or
opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.”
- Bruce Marten

“We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.”
- Pogo

“The doors we open and close each day choose the lives we live.”
- Flora Whittemore

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“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”

– Henry Ford

“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”

– Unknown

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“When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for terrible economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.”

– Warren Buffett

“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”

– Warren Buffett

“In the business world, the rear view mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

– Warren Buffett

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“The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.”

Agha Hasan Abedi

“Excellent management is the art of making problems so fascinating and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.”

– Paul Hawken

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

– Peter Drucker

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“If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.”

– Jack Welch

“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”

– Jack Welch

“The success combination in business is: Do what you do better… and do more of what you do…”

- David Joseph Schwartz

“Failure is simply the opportunity to start again, this time more intelligently.”

– Henry Ford

“Whether you reckon that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.”

– Henry Ford

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“Management by objectives works if you first reckon through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven’t.”

– Peter Drucker

“The single largest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

– George Bernard Shaw

“I am certainly going to take a course on time management… just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.”

– Louis E. Boone

“Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.”

– Harold S. Geneen

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“Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds
spirit to sense, is useful.”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.”
- Henry Ward Beecher

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from
the strong.”
- Leo Rosten

“We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs
it far more.”
- Madame Swetchine, The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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“The purpose of business is to make and keep a customer.”

– Peter Drucker

“Follow effective action with silent reflection. From the silent  reflection will come even more effective action.”

– Peter Drucker

“The most vital thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.”

– Peter Drucker

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“A leader is one who knows the way, shows the way, and goes the way.”
- Author Unknown

“A leader is a dealer of hope.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte

“Real leaders are ordinary people, with extraordinary determinations”
- John Seaman Garns

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”
- Donald H. McGannon

“A fantastic leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.”
- Jules Ormont

“A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn’t like the tune.”
- Anon

“Excellent leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the
periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization.
When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.”
- Warren Bennis

“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the
prod.”
- Sir Winston Churchill

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying
it out.”
- Stephen Covey

“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In
between, the leader is a servant.”
- Max De Pree, “Leadership Is an Art”

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he
wants to do it.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and
goes.”
- John Erksine, The Complete Life

“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes
an emergency.”
- John Glassgow

“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.”
- Theodore Hesburgh

“The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, ‘Go!’ – a leader says, ‘Let’s
go!’”
- E.M. Kelly, Growing Disciples, 1995

“The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with
himself.”
- Blaine Lee, The Power Principle

“The fantastic leaders are like the best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the
magic in the players.”
- Blaine Lee, The Power Principle

“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the
will to carry on.”
- Walter Lippmann

“The genius of a excellent leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense,
without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
- Walter Lippman

“To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.”
- Andre Malraux, Man’s Hope

“The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they
eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.”
- Fred A. Manske, Jr.

“Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be
without the strategy.”
- Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

“No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural
qualities of one.”
- Archibald Wavell, “London Times”, February 17, 1941

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