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

"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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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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