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"We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs."
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"A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason."
"Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented."
"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."
"It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality."
"The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them."
"I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them."
"I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality."
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"When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come to pull up one's socks and start relearning and reassessing living. ['Another empty room']"
"Rather than waste or eliminate items which you don't currently use, discover a new way to improve and enjoy their value. What strengths and talents can you repurpose for a new endeavor? How can you re-purpose your thoughts to ensure they help you rather than hinder?"
"She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her."
"But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die."
"After awhile you could get used to anything."
"If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'."
"If there is no room in the river, swim to the ocean."
"There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way."
"In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him."
"When you move to a new environment with cultural and social characteristics different from your own, it is only logical, that you loosen some of the knots of your religious doctrines, to embrace the new and vivid environment as much as you wish to be embraced by the environment."
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