"The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise."
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"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."
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"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."
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"It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty near tireless fun for me. I'd rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world."
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"Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it."
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"The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay."
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"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
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"Earn your leadership every day."
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"Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively."
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"Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't."
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"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
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"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
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"Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be."
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"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see."
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"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."
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"In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle."
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"Learn what you are and be such."
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"The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken."
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"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."
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"Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be."
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