The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
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In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.
So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.
I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.
The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
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