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“• People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don’t judge people until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead.”

“They-" He stopped and just blinked at me for a minute. "You know, people are always saying that you're cuckoo. Looney Tunes. Off the freaking edge. But I tell 'em, no, she's okay. She's got some...anger management issues. But you know what? They're right. You're nuts.”

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Author:Karen Chance

“Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make”

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Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“People are your most valuable asset. Only people can be made to appreciate in value.”

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Author:Stephen Covey

“I went to the brink many times. A couple of times I thought "I'm gone, This is it." But then you would just keep working. I think if you're close to the brink and just make sure that you work twice as hard and put twice as much effort into everything and the people around you and everything, you should come through.”

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Author:Gerry Harvey

“Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.”

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Book:The Heart of a Leader

Source: The Heart of a Leader

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

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Author:Laozi

“You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.”

“There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows what to do with it.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.”

Source: Managing People is Like Herding Cats

“How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.”

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Author:John Harvey-Jones

“I was always acting primarily with shareholder interests in mind. It's also true I've always had a fairly moralistic attitude to business, and would not do anything that I considered improper. As a consequence, I have occasionally pursued issues during my career that other people might have avoided.”

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Author:Chris Corrigan

“Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.”

Source: Managing in a Time of Great Change

“The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people, but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic.”

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Author:Pete Wilson

“When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.”

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Author:Guy Kawasaki

“Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can't expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don't exceed the employees' expectations of management.”

“Businesses are made by people. We've proven time and time again that you can have wonderful shop, and put a bloke in there who's no good, and he'll stuff it up. Put a good bloke in, and it just turns around like that .”

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Author:Gerry Harvey

“Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.”

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Author:Laozi

“I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can be very often traced to the question of how well the organization brings out the great energies and talents of its people.”

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Author:Thomas Watson, Jr.

“Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas.”

“True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from fear.”

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Author:James D. Robinson III

“The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.”

“With some exceptions, the wrong people are running U.S. companies. It's been that way for years, and it hasn't gotten much better.”

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Author:Carl Icahn

“Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.”

“I think you have to work with people, and when I talk about managing relationships, don't think the derogatory ''managed relationships''. It is a question of sharing emotion and feelings. The common denominator of everything can't be money, and it should not be money.”

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Author:Anil Ambani

“Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.”

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Book:My American Journey

Source: My American Journey

“The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the competitive success that could only be achieved by the deliberate direction of a senior management that possesses the combined knowledge of all employees and contractors”

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Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“People ask me, how is managing in the New Economy different from managing in the Old Economy? Actually, it's a lot the same. It's about the financial discipline of the bottom line, understanding your customers, segmenting your customers by their needs, and building a world-class management team.”

“The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.”

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Author:Rupert Murdoch

“Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.”

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Author:Anthony de Mello

“Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests.”

“Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“Be generous with the credit for your achievements. The more other people feel that they are gaining from your success, the more they will continue to help and others will want to join in”

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Author:Octavius Black

“Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the reverse is true. The knowledge of our staff is our principal asset”

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Author:Susan Rice

“Few people do business well, who do nothing else.”

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Author:Lord Chesterfield

“It's the behaviour of your company and its people that form your reputation, and your reputation is your brand”

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Author:Dave Allen

“We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?”

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Author:Richard Branson

“People work in the system. Management creates the system”

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Author:W. Edwards Deming

“The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn”

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Author:Carlos Ghosn

“Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves”

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Author:John Bright

“Only business can build a low-carbon economy. Business is all about seeing ideas and growing them. Businesses have the resources, the people, the technical skills to make things happen - and they have the channels to market”

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Author:Tom DeLay

“The word 'professional' doesn't hold any magic or mystique. The people who really change the world are usually amateurs”

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Author:Dave Hampton

“The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me”

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Book:Like A Virgin: Secrets They Won’t Teach You at Business School

Source: Like A Virgin: Secrets They Won’t Teach You at Business School

“Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe that is a serious proposition.”

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Author:Tony Blair

“Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place”

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Author:William McDonough

“Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren't important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by spending more time in Quadrant II...Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management.”

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Book:The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time

Source: The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time

“And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.”

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Author:Donny Deutsch

“We all need a story. It just turns out that the story we have been told for years - that people are naturally and primarily competitive and self-interested and that life is best shaped around that bleak fact - is bunkum”

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Author:Ed Mayo

“The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be concealed or disclosed, or disclosed in such parts and at such times as will best suit particular views; and because the body of the people are less capable of judging, and are more under the influence of prejudices, on that branch of their affairs, than of any other. Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”

Source: James Madison's

“There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.”