"Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book."
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"Walt Disney had a very clear sense of why. He was about happiness. Remember when Disney was founded, it was during war. People said that life sucked. And he said, "No." He was an eternal optimist who said: "Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family." Look what happened. His cause grew and people committed themselves to helping him grow the Disney why and it was hugely successful."
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"The people who say,"What guarantee do I have?" I walk away. I'll get you later."
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"The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails."
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"We should always choose to work with people we love. They are the ones who will watch our back and our future."
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"Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge first and the money second."
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"We learn most not from all of the things that go right. We learn most when everything goes wrong."
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"Nike doesn't want to make products for everyone - they want to make products for champions."
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"Remaining calm in times of desperation makes way for opportunity."
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"Those who lead inspire us Whether they are individuals or organizations, we follow those who lead not because we have to but because we want to."
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"If you're looking for a New York Times best-seller, I may or may not give you that."
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"Givers advance the world. Takers advance themselves and hold the world back"
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"I don't consider myself an expert in the why."
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"Leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person."
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"We invest in things like the future, like our children, like education. In other words, we invest in things that we understand we will not see an immediate return of investment but everybody knows it will have a positive impact and you can easily measure it over the course of time. Your why is exactly the same thing."
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"I can't stand those people, speakers in a room, they say this all the time, "If I can just help one person in this room, I've done my job." You have an audience of 500 people and your standard of success is one person? That's terrible. If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something."
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"We must be clear about where we’re going if we want anyone to help us get there."
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"We live in times of high stress. Messages that are simple, messages that are inspiring, messages that are life-affirming, are a welcome break from our real lives."
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"Systems and processes are essential to keep the crusade going, but they should not replace the crusade."
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"Wal-Mart's size and scale is so vast they literally have the ability to change the face of the entire country. If Wal-Mart were to make a decision tomorrow to refuse to sell a single product made with partially hydrogenated oils, for example, we'd probably see rates from heart disease decline a few years later. That's how powerful Wal-Mart is."
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