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"I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms."
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"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."

"The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission."

"Management: An art of handling conflicting Egos to meet a common objective, be it political, organisational or societal in nature."

"Leadership is relationship."

"All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the Knicks organization, I couldn't allow myself to think that way or believe that."

"Successful people carefully manage their energy and associations, they are gatekeepers."

"You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness."

"Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented."

"It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them."

"A manager has his cards dealt to him and he must play them."
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"Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets."

"I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business."

"We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets."

"We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant."

"The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle."

"Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them."

"I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents."

"We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn."

"It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone."
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