"My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better."
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"The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for"
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"Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them."
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"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."
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"Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether an individual or a country has steadfastness."
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"Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115"
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"Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations."
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"He who makes no mistakes makes no progress."
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"I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect."
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"Leading is not the same as being the leader. Being the leader means you hold the highest rank, either by earning it, good fortune or navigating internal politics. Leading, however, means that others willingly follow you—not because they have to, not because they are paid to, but because they want to."
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"Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds."
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"Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment."
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"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal."
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"If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you."
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"Fortune favours the bold."
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"There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality."
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"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."
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"Set a goal and make a commitment to meet that goal. Do the best you can, but never forget your roots, never forget where you came from. After you have succeeded, look back and see if there are others that you might help to achieve what you have accomplished."
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"A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities."
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"Appearances matter — and remember to smile."
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