Mark McCormack Quotes

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• Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.
• If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.
• Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.
• All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.
• I am convinced that most companies don't maximize their barter possibilities. Instead of aggressively reducing costs by trading their services with those of their suppliers,…
• Every discussion in a meeting has a diminishing curve of interest. The longer the discussion goes on, the fewer people will be interested in it.
• You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.
• Today, if someone showed me a five-year plan, I'd toss out the pages detailing Years Three, Four and Five as pure fantasy Anyone who thinks…
• If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come…
• Short-term can be terminal.
• People retire to do what I do every day.
• To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill…
• If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.
• Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.
• Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives…
• I'm about as concerned as Jack would be if he read that I was practicing to compete in the Masters

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