"Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it."
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"We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient."
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"Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred."
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"The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man."
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"Listen, involve, synergize at work. Then you will bury the old and create an entirely new winning culture which will unleash people's talents and create complementary teams where strengths are made productive and weakness are made irrelevant through the strengths of others."
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"It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity."
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"The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too."
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"While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people."
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"Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to the scholar, education of the conscience is vital to the truly proactive, highly effective person. Training and educating the conscience, however, requires even greater concentration, more balanced discipline, more consistently honest living. It requires regular feasting on inspiring literature, thinking noble thoughts and, above all, living in harmony with its still small voice."
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"Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better."
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"It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it."
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"Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you."
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"Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics."
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"In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family."
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"You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods."
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"The greatest thing you can do for your children is love your spouse."
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"As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods."
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"Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less."
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"We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat."
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"we're responsible for our own lives."
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