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"You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory."
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"Everyone loves the idea of "disruption" in business, but no one likes it when it happens to them."

"As a child, I used to wonder why markets in my locality were all situated near the main roads. I grew up a little to get the answer; " that business minded people can meet there easily!" Your dream must be situated where they can meet people!"

"An entrepreneurial spirit makes you someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business enterprise, talent or calling to become an agent of change."

"There are two kinds of warriors: those on the battlefield, and those in the boardroom; both are out to win. But the age of King Alexander has gone, and the age of Bill Gates has come."
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"You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work."

"I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them."

"Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves."

"It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality."

"Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away."

"Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it."

"Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization."
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