"Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others."
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"Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers."
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"Don't try to be the 'next'. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new."
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"If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either."
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"Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth."
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"Once you have permission to talk to someone, finding new products or services for them is a smart way to grow."
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"One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that."
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"The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods."
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"The market and the consumer and idea trump the system."
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"Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward."
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"We're focused on doing one thing incredibly well. If you look at other companies, all of these companies are doing a lot of different things but we're still, as we grow, doing exactly one thing."
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"We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone."
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"If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it."
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"If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail."
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"If you are doing something wrong, you will do it badly."
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"Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs."
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"No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong."
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"All good management is the expression of one great idea"
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"Either an executive can do his job or he can't."
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"Cash in must exceed cash out."
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