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- Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
- Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.
- The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
- Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by…
- The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make…
- It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.
- Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.
- The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try.
- The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly more over here,…
- Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.
- One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not…
- The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up with the wrong…
- More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.
- I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more…
- The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a…
- Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
- Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though…
- We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those…
- It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
- The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson