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Category Archives: Strategy
Wise Words: Irwin S. Cobb
If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers.
Wise Words: Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Wise Words: Aldous Huxley
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Wise Words: Colin Powell
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Wise Words: Ralph Waldo Emerson: what you do
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Wise Words: Steve Jobs: saying no
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we [Apple] haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.
Wise Words: Mark Twain: majority
When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to stop and reconsider.
Wise Words: Maureen Dowd
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
Wise Words: Frederic Laloux
Life is so complex, and events and circumstances change so fast, that setting a target is mostly guesswork. A year after it has been set, a target is, in most cases, just an arbitrary number—either so easy to reach as to be meaningless or so challenging that people must take shortcuts to meet the number, actions that will hurt the company in the long run.
