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Big ideas and big plans are often easier – certainly no more difficult – than small ideas and small plans.
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Action cures fear.
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Your mind wants you to forget the unpleasant. If you will just corporate, unpleasant memories will gradually shrivel and the teller in your memory bank will cancel them out.
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Suppose you say, “We face a problem.” You have created a picture in the minds of others of something difficult, unpleasant to solve. Instead say, “We face a challenge”, and you create a mind picture of fun, sport, something pleasant to do.
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It isn’t so much what you know when you start that matters. It’s what you learn and put to use after you open your doors that counts most.
Big success calls for persons who continually set higher standards for themselves and others, persons who are searching for ways to increase efficiency, to get more output at lower cost, do more with less effort.
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The bigger the person, the more apt he is to encourage you to talk; the smaller the person, the more apt he is to preach to you.
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The child is a living reflection of how his parents or guardians think; for he learns through imitation.
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The way we think toward our jobs determines how our subordinates think toward their jobs.
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Get the family on your team. Give them planned attention.
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You don’t get a raise on the promise of better performance; you get a raise only by demonstrating better performance.
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Recognize the fact that other fellow has a right to be different…you don’t have to approve of what another fellow does, but you must no dislike him for doing it.
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Excellent ideas are not enough. An only fair idea acted upon, and developed, is 100 percent better than a terrific idea that dies because it isn’t followed up.
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The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise.
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I make myself sit down at my desk. Then I pick up a pencil and go through mechanical motions of writing. I put down anything. I doodle. I get my fingers and arm in motion, and sooner or later, without my being conscious of it, my mind gets on the right track.
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When you hit a snag, don’t throw up the whole project. Instead, back off, get mentally refreshed.
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Visualize your future in terms of three departments: work, home, and social.
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Many people fail to tap their creative leadership power because they confer with everybody and everything else but themselves.
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You never gain anything from an argument but you always lose something.
