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"We prefer to be around others who bring out the best in us and make us feel good, don't we? Customers want to do business with people who make them feel valued, appreciated, and happy."

"If you can't fire your best friend or your brother, don't hire them."

"Project your "brand to be remarkable and memorable. Whether through a positioning statement, product placement, advertising campaign, service, a logo, mission, or message, your brand is what makes you and/or your company remarkable-or not."

"They call it "business" because it does not become successful by a person's "idleness". Go get busy if you want to do business; but be busy for the right reasons!"

"If anyone rises to power, it's not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many with apparent means to take it failed simply because they weren't destined for the honor."

"Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?"

"I figure anything over 13 weeks in this business is pretty good."

"An intelligent organization is not about the "cleverness of one analytics team but the insightful nature of the entire business."
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"You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news."


"If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good."


"Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time."


"Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new."


"Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people."


"The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer."


"Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops."


"If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid."


"Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops."
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