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Bear in mind that creativity is not coming up with an idea out of nowhere; it’s an act of synthesis, of bringing together several things into a novel combination. Creativity is something in service to innovation; it’s not innovation itself. And again, it’s hard work.
— Reinhard Ziegler
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Entrepreneurship is the relentless pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.
— Howard Stevenson
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For all its promise, the Internet is too noisy a place. It brings us information in real time and at no cost, but it will never displace those who provide real insight and leadership. The ability to spot the trends in the glut of information is a human art. The future will provide a premium for leaders who offer such wisdom, and an audience willing to pay them.
— Michio Kaku
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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
— Sam Walton
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Whom the gods want to destroy, they send 30 years of success. In the midst of your success, the seeds of failure are sown, and the signals are often very subtle.
— Peter Drucker
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Concerning the gulf between the haves and the have-nots, it is more than ironic that perhaps the largest gulf of all is not between Americans and people in other countries, but rather between CEOs in America and their own workers. How are we going to narrow the former until we take steps to narrow the latter?
— Graef Crystal
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We are practical beings, each of us with limited functions and duties to perform. Each is bound to feel intensely the importance of his own duties and the significance of the situations that call these forth. But this feeling is in each of us a vital secret, for sympathy with which we vainly look to others. The others are too much absorbed in their own vital secrets to take an interest in ours. Hence the stupidity and injustice of our opinions, so far as they deal with the significance of alien lives. Hence the falsity of our judgments, so far as they presume to decide in an absolute way on the value of other persons’ conditions or ideals.
— William James
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Our judgments concerning the worth of things, big or little, depend on the feelings the things arouse in us. Where we judge a thing to be precious in consequence of the idea we frame of it, this is only because the idea is itself associated already with a feeling. If we were radically feelingless, and if ideas were the only things our mind could entertain, we should lose all our likes and dislikes at a stroke, and be unable to point to any one situation or experience in life more valuable or significant than any other.
— William James
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I make an important distinction between CEOs who are effective teachers and CEOs who are effective leaders of the learning processes of their organizations. A teacher imparts a point of view, a perspective, a vision, a set of guidelines - it’s communication from the expert to the novice. Meanwhile a CEO who leads the learning process of others, creates a learning culture, cultivates learning processes and actively leads dialogue and discussion - often with an unclear endpoint.
— David A. Garvin
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On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
— Adlai Stevenson
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