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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
It stems from my Australianisms and belief that everyone is a fundamental cog in the wheel.
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.
One finds limits by pushing them.
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!
You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground.
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.
The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Everything can be improved.
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Boxing is a business.
I hate show business.
Make mistakes faster.
Life is all business.
Cycling is a business.
Trade is a social act.
Good marketers measure.
I'm running a business.
The sea is my business.
Never tell me the odds!
Make it just like a Mac.
Business is a team sport.
Business before pleasure.
