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“As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.”

Grows Business Acting

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.”

“We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively-that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business.... the two are interdependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant.”

“Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them.... for really new ideas of any kind--no matter how ultimately profitable or otherwise successful some of them might prove to be--there is no leeway for such chancy trial, error and experimentation in the high-overhead economy of new construction. Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.”

“We grow by letting the customer tell us. So when the customer tells us that they're frustrated, that they just got their catalogue and we're already out of a product they wanted, then it tells me that we're not making enough. We let the customer tell us instead of creating an artificial demand for our products. Any time you're making products that people don't need, you're at the mercy of the economy, you're at the mercy of whatever is going on. So we tried to avoid that situation.”

People Needs Enough Wanted Grows Business Situation Economy Products Demand Creating Mercy Customers Artificial Frustrated Need You Catalogues Don't Need You

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring.”

Grows Business Succeed Organization Boring Seeds Demise

Author:Seth

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”

“When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree”

Art Nations Grows Business Tree Design Cold Settling Commerce

Book:The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

“In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves.”

May Stills Soul Grows Difficult Business Access Confusion Surround Midlife Thickets

Author:Saul Bellow

“If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.”

People Ifs Want Grows Water Results Business Flower Teamwork Good People Teammate Team Building

Book:Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

“Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.”

Self Grows Sin Results Business Learning Becoming Transformation Complexes Favors Setting Settings Becoming More Unselfish Old Self

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi