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When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. But when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.
— Lord Kelvin (British physicist)
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There are only three things that are certain: God, human folly, and laughter. We cannot comprehend the first two, so we have to do the best we can with the third - laughter.
— Richard Reeves
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Our industry is full of unpleasant type-A personalities such as myself…Never stand between me and a place I want to go. Don’t confuse my civility with complacency.
— David Komansky, Chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch
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The best way to predict the future is to create it.
— Peter Drucker
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I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There’s vision, patience, and execution.
The vision phase is full of excitement, vim, and vigor. Everything looks big and rosy. At that stage, we don’t know what we don’t know. Then you get into the patience stage, and that’s tough. You have to cut out parts of the product that don’t fit. You have to react to what the market is telling you. You get in trouble if you assume that you’re going to reach critical mass quickly — because it’s most likely that you won’t. Through all of these trials, you can’t lose patience. Then you finally get to the execution stage, when you’re tuning things up, tracking prices, and figuring out how to get more revenue.
That final execution phase can be a comfortable place to be. Frankly, the vision phase can be very comfortable, too. It’s the patience phase that’s really not comfortable at all.
— Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO
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For the self-renewing person the development of his or her own potentialities and the process of self-discovery never end. It is a sad, but unarguable fact that most human beings go through their lives only partially aware of the full range of their abilities.
— John Gardner
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I don’t wish to sound pretentious in any way, but I’ve always tried to teach by using stories or parables. I figure if it’s good enough for the Bible, it’s good enough for Harvey Penick.
— Harvey Penick
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What is the aim or purpose of strategy? To improve our ability to shape and adapt to unfolding circumstances, so that we (as individuals or as groups or as a culture or as a nation-state) can survive on our own terms.
— John R. Boyd, USAF
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I’m a great believer that leadership, in a large part, is moral leadership. And people want to follow moral leadership. They respect it. And they expect it, too.
— Thorton Bradshaw
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The problem is arrogance doesn’t knock on the door and walk in-it sneaks in under the door. You never see it and you never feel it.
— Timothy Haas, Coca Cola Executive
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