A list of quotes put together by mjblake
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It always seems impossible until it's done.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.
Top executives should rate their subordinates on loyalty and competence. Those who are more loyal than competent should be fired because they are the dangerous ones. They will stay forever while other more competent, less loyal people will jump ship as problems develop.
If you hit every time ... the target is too near or too big.
They’ve got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody around me to tell me the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.
You’re either part of the solution or part of the problem.
Leaders don’t create followers. They create more leaders.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
You can only lead others where you yourself are prepared to go.
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable. To be certain is to be ridiculous.
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Intelligence is what we use when we don't know what to do, when we have to grope rather than using a standard response.
People rise to the challenge when it is their challenge.
Some people see things as they are and ask - why? I dream of things that have never been done and ask - why not?
As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.