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There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve.
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.
Begin with the end in mind.
The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something.
You are not your resume, you are your work.
Being an # entrepreneur is not a get-rich scheme; it takes # strength of character to keep going.
To me, a spouse should be a life partner AND a business partner. Just like any good partner, her strengths must make up for my weaknesses and vice versa.
A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.
We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.
If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
Every wall is a door.
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.
Nike is a marketing-oriented company, and the product is our most important marketing tool.
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.
Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.
The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
To lead people, walk behind them.
