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"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. A profound reflection on strategy, value, and corporate growth."

-- John D. Rockefeller

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. A profound reflection on strategy, value, and corporate growth."

-- John D. Rockefeller

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. A profound reflection on strategy, value, and corporate growth."

-- Warren Buffett

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. A profound reflection on strategy, value, and corporate growth."

-- Warren Buffett

"Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers. A profound reflection on strategy, value, and corporate growth."

-- Seth Godin

"Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers. A profound reflection on strategy, value, and corporate growth."

-- Seth Godin

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. A profound reflection on strategy, value, and corporate growth."

-- Winston Churchill

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. A profound reflection on strategy, value, and corporate growth."

-- Winston Churchill

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. A profound reflection on strategy, value, and corporate growth."

-- Warren Buffett

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. A profound reflection on strategy, value, and corporate growth."

-- Warren Buffett

"I want to hire people who are smarter than I am."

-- Steve Jobs

"I want to hire people who are smarter than I am."

-- Steve Jobs

"My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better."

-- Steve Jobs

"My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better."

-- Steve Jobs

"Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do."

-- Steve Jobs

"Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do."

-- Steve Jobs

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."

-- Steve Jobs

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."

-- Steve Jobs

"The best structure will not guarantee results or performance. But the wrong structure is a guarantee of failure."

-- Peter Drucker

"The best structure will not guarantee results or performance. But the wrong structure is a guarantee of failure."

-- Peter Drucker

"A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge."

-- Peter Drucker

"A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge."

-- Peter Drucker

"An organization is only as good as the people it keeps."

-- Peter Drucker

"An organization is only as good as the people it keeps."

-- Peter Drucker

"Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization."

-- Peter Drucker

"Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization."

-- Peter Drucker

"The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager."

-- Peter Drucker

"The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager."

-- Peter Drucker

"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it."

-- Peter Drucker

"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it."

-- Peter Drucker

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

-- Peter Drucker

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

-- Peter Drucker

"The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking."

-- Elon Musk

"The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking."

-- Elon Musk

"The duty of a leader is to serve their people, not for the people to serve them."

-- Elon Musk

"The duty of a leader is to serve their people, not for the people to serve them."

-- Elon Musk

"People work better when they know what the goal is and why."

-- Elon Musk

"People work better when they know what the goal is and why."

-- Elon Musk

"The path to the CEO's office should be through engineering and design."

-- Elon Musk

"The path to the CEO's office should be through engineering and design."

-- Elon Musk

"The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire."

-- Swami Vivekananda

"The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire."

-- Swami Vivekananda

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Explore meaningful management quotes that speak to real life. Drawn from great minds across time, this collection offers clarity, comfort and inspiration when you need it most.

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"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. A profound reflection on strategy, value, and corporate growth."

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. A profound reflection on strategy, value, and corporate growth."

"Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers. A profound reflection on strategy, value, and corporate growth."

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. A profound reflection on strategy, value, and corporate growth."

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. A profound reflection on strategy, value, and corporate growth."

"I want to hire people who are smarter than I am."

"My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better."

"Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do."

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."

"The best structure will not guarantee results or performance. But the wrong structure is a guarantee of failure."

"A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge."

"An organization is only as good as the people it keeps."

"Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization."

"The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager."

"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it."

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

"The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking."

"The duty of a leader is to serve their people, not for the people to serve them."

"People work better when they know what the goal is and why."

"The path to the CEO's office should be through engineering and design."

"The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire."

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