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• Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.

  John P. Kotter

  Leadership, Helping Others, Common Vision

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• Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Art, Business

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.477, Best Books on

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• Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

  Lewis Carroll

  Running, Philosophy, Philosophical

  'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) ch. 12

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• Change is not made without inconvenience.

  Samuel Johnson

  Change, Projects, Made

  'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755) preface.

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• Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

  Chuck Noll

  Basketball, Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational

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• Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

  Tom DeMarco

  Team, People, Leader

  Tom DeMarco (1997). “The deadline: a novel about project management”, Dorset House

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• The only real training for leadership is leadership.

  Antony Jay

  Leadership, Real, Coaching

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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  The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

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• No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

  Halford Luccock

  Life, Teamwork, Science

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  Begin with the end in mind.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

  Stephen R. Covey (2000). “Vision: Defining Your Destiny in Life”, Franklincovey

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• Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

  Roger von Oech

  Business, Work, Failure

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• All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Change, Success, Creativity

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

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  I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

  Isaac Asimov

  Change, Business, Mean

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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• If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

  Malcolm X

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

  Isaac Asimov

  Motivational, Future, Continuing On

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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• You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations". Book by William S. Walsh, 1951.

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• Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

  Tom Peters

  Procrastination, Thinking, Worst Enemy

  Tom Peters (1999). “The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!”, p.89, Knopf

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• Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

  Julie Andrews

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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  Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

  Samuel Beckett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

  1983 Worst ward Ho.

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• Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

  Theophrastus

  Inspirational, Basketball, Time

  Theophrastus (1904). “The characters of Theophrastus”

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• When you don't know what you're doing, fake it.

  Jill Shalvis

  Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Top Management

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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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  Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

  William Penn

  Time, Top Management, Want

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