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"We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs."
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"Sometimes the changes in your life will be planned with strategy, optimism, and intention. Other changes, however, will catch you by surprise, sabotage your success, break your heart, cause you stress, or leave you feeling lost. Whether you are dealing with planned or unplanned change, there will always be a degree of adaptation and reorientation required in order for you to be resilient."
"Adapt yourself to the needs of the people."
"Admittedly, there will be times when you must interact on a superficial level and adjust your behavior to fit in, go along and get along."
"The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton."
"Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules."
"What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"
"At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root."
"If you don't stay relevant you will be relegated."
"Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process."
"The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland.The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides.The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun.The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus.The moral of the story?Kids are smart."
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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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