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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #4
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #5
    Peter F. Drucker
    “The best way to predict your future is to create it”
    Peter Drucker

  • #6
    Peter F. Drucker
    “The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”
    Peter F. Drucker

  • #7
    Peter F. Drucker
    “No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”
    Peter Drucker

  • #8
    Peter F. Drucker
    “Business has only two functions — marketing and innovation.”
    Peter Drucker

  • #9
    Peter F. Drucker
    “This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
    Peter F. Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

  • #10
    Peter F. Drucker
    “Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.”
    Peter F. Drucker

  • #11
    Peter F. Drucker
    “The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”
    Peter Drucker

  • #12
    Peter F. Drucker
    “There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.”
    Peter Drucker

  • #13
    Peter F. Drucker
    “Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. ”
    Peter Drucker

  • #14
    Peter F. Drucker
    “Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”
    Peter F. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices

  • #15
    Peter F. Drucker
    “People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.”
    Peter Drucker

  • #16
    Peter F. Drucker
    “The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.”
    Peter F. Drucker, Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices

  • #17
    Peter F. Drucker
    “The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers.
    The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.”
    Peter Drucker

  • #18
    Nathaniel Branden
    “How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life – and a commitment to action. Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: ‘What's good in my life?’ and ‘What needs to be done?”
    Nathaniel Branden

  • #19
    Nathaniel Branden
    “Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.”
    Nathaniel Branden, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

  • #20
    Nathaniel Branden
    “Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.”
    Nathaniel Branden

  • #21
    Nathaniel Branden
    “The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.”
    Nathaniel Branden

  • #22
    Nathaniel Branden
    “It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively--which means to live authentically--is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding--from others and also from themselves.”
    Nathaniel Branden

  • #23
    Sun Tzu
    “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #24
    Sun Tzu
    “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #25
    Sun Tzu
    “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #26
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #27
    Sun Tzu
    “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity”
    Sun-Tzu, A Arte da Guerra

  • #28
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #29
    Dwight David Eisenhower
    “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • #30
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!”
    Theodore Roosevelt



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