“Stagnancy will suffocate a business… Leadership must be dynamic and evolving to ensure successful growth, enhancement, and longevity.”
“I had a vision and made it happen.- Christina Lari, Olivia & Owen”
“You NEED to learn how to fly before you learn how to land and you MUST learn how to land before you start flying.”
“Where Attention Goes, Energy Flows”
“...бизнес и симпатии - две разные вещи. Самые милые люди становились твёрдыми и беспощадными, если этого требовали соображения дела.”
“The truth is that as you are building your small business, still that small business needs to experience some form of increase and growth”
“When you think there is nothing left to improve on, your business dies, for there is no shortage of innovators”
“Successful business is always almost dishonest”
“The efforts of a leader will be emulated. Depending on the quality of appointed leadership, this can be medicine or poison to a living business.”
“The most successful businesses have leaders that see the correlation between customer service and sales… not as separate departments, but as complimentary components for growth.”
“The greatest way to ensure your company’s failure is to appoint leaders who see a divide between themselves and the team; who are more fixated on their elevated role than on the act of leading.”
“What you hold in your consciousness tends to manifest—the inner game runs the outer game.”
“If you want to break through to higher levels of performance, you must allow yourself to be restructured.”
“If BlackHat people can monetize an opportunity (that is, convert it to money), and especially if they can scale it (that is, make money from a big mass of people), then they will do it—happily so—and even create their own sub-markets to serve that BlackHat opportunity.”
“What is my business in this? Oh yea, it is my business. It is not just my business, it is my calling.”
“You didn’t warn us about this, Readier,’ said Stowley resentfully. Gilt waved his hands. ‘We must speculate to accumulate!’ he said. ‘The Post Office? Trickery and sleight of hand. Oh, von Lipwig is an ideas man, but that’s all he is. He’s made a splash, but he’s not got the stamina for the long haul. Yet as it turns out he will do us a favour. Perhaps we have been . . . a little smug, a little lax, but we have learned our lesson! Spurred by the competition we are investing several hundred thousand dollars—’ ‘Several hundred?’ said Greenyham. Gilt waved him into silence, and continued: ‘—several hundred thousand dollars in a challenging, relevant and exciting systemic overhaul of our entire organization, focusing on our core competencies while maintaining full and listening co-operation with the communities we are proud to serve. We fully realize that our energetic attempts to mobilize the flawed infrastructure we inherited have been less than totally satisfactory, and hope and trust that our valued and loyal customers will bear with us in the coming months as we interact synergistically with change management in our striving for excellence. That is our mission.’ An awed silence followed.”
“Because discipline is misunderstood or not as valued as it has been, the United States—and some might argue the world—is experiencing a cultural leadership crisis.”