My Favorite Quotes

I cannot give you the formula for success,
but I can give you the formula for failure--which is:
Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope

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Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford

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Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Lao Tzu

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The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.
Lee Iacocca

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Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Harold R. McAlindon

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Jacqueline Bisset

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