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"It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform."
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"The best leaders don't give a damn about the definition of leadership, they are thinking about more important things."
"Leadership is relationship."
"Management: An art of handling conflicting Egos to meet a common objective, be it political, organisational or societal in nature."
"The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission."
"You cannot do everything by yourself, you need to learn how to delegate responsibility and trust people that everything will be done on time and with highest quality."
"Great leaders understand the importance of assigning the right people to the right positions. If you put the wrong person in the wrong place, no matter how talented or earnest they are, they will never reach the peak of their potential. Their strengths will be underutilized and they may never measure up to your expectations. Reassign to get the best out of others and the situation."
"If organizations measure the input to the strategy implementation, but not the output, it's a recipe for disaster."
"It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them."
"Until you fight the battle against time, you won't know how best to manage your time."
"The challenge is having a harmonized vision about management philosophy, capability, structure, and maturity in a digital organization."
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"If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing."
"I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself."
"I have, in my partner George Roberts, a person who is the most wonderful man in the world to me. He's like a brother to me. Creating with him, being side by side with him, in whatever we try to do, is a real pleasure to me."
"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."
"So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else."
"I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners."
"I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street."
"I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money."
"The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters."
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