“Virtually every one of us was born with a hunger for life itself, with what I call a passion for the promises of life, and that passion can take one to the heights. Unfortunately, in too many of us, it devolves into drive. Entrepreneur Larry Wilson defined the difference between […]
Yearly Archives: 2007
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“Vito Corleone had decided to murder Fanucci. By doing so he would have an extra seven hundred dollars in his bankroll. The three hundred dollars he himself would have to pay the Black Hand terrorist and the two hundred dollars from Tessio and the two hundred dollars from Clemenza. If […]
“Of course, [Warren] Buffett isn’t the only person to have realized the power of building his life around his strengths. Whenever you interview people who are truly successful at their chosen profession–from teaching to telemarketing, acting to accounting–you discover that the secret to their success lies in their ability to […]
“Some people have a highly developed fear of failure, and when these people become executives… this need not to fail drives the organization and patterns its strategic planning. …[T]his means not seeting objectives (they may be the wrong ones), not taking risks (risk is a dirty word to people with […]
“What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable… [It] boils down to something like this: The knowledge he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas, or forms of words, but of people, places, actions—a knowledge not […]
“As Profitable Retailers, we …succeed because we test, we fail, we learn, and we improve. We will improve our stores by doing more imperfect tests…” “To be innovative, we must learn to live with less than ideal situations in our tests. If we wait for perfect conditions, we may miss […]
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the […]