Business Leadership Skills 02 (Feb 13 - Apr 15)

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"A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch."
-- Mary Kay Ash, cosmetics pioneer

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"The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness."
- Lee Iacocca

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"The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar of coffee, and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun."

- John D. Rockefeller

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"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."
-- Ferdinand Foch, military strategist

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"A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one."

- Henry Ford

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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Edison

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"An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create an incremental advantage."
-- John Wooden, Basketball Coach

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"Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership."

-- Brian Tracy

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"Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block and try something new."
-- Thomas J. Watson

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"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel.

If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. "

- Sam Walton, Founder of Wal-Mart and Sam's Club