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The hardest challenge being an HR is that sometimes you have to be the LAWYER, the JUDGE and the HANGMAN.

...the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.

The higher you go in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become.

The highway behind gives me courage to move into the future. I desire to see the first light of tomorrow.

The Highest Reward for men and women 's devotion and dedication to excellence is not what one gets from it but what one he or she becomes through it.

The house you built can cave you in if you didn't do it right.

The idea of receiving a letter from the IRS is not a pleasant one for anyone. What makes it worse is the confusion, the fear, the assumptions and the thoughts of all the worst-case scenarios that can make you feel like you have a tidal wave of stress.

The idea of finding value in what people are willing to pay to get rid of it one of the fundamental backbones of ecocapitalism, as I think of it now.

The job of the brand is to make that name and that logo stand for something. To live its founding principles each day. To stay true.

The key difference between captain and coach? The latter’s opportunities for influence come at moments when play isn't happening,

The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.

The kingdom of God works in all spheres of culture, whether church, family, education, government, arts, business, or media. It is time to stop operating under the mindset that these spheres ought to be separated into secular and Christian, hoarding all the ‘sanctified spheres’ into the church, thereby leaving the world struggling in a vacuum of death. When we suck all the living water into the church, the world is left to die of thirst.

The key to unlock your entrepreneurial spirit is your imagination.

The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.

... the language we use is insightful. When we say we are paying attention to something, we are recognizing that attention comes at a cost.

The large office had been deliberately designed so that the two sub-terranian levels were just the tiniest bit smaller, so that the building was proudly 51% conducting honest and open business, and only 49% not. Inkle and Kelvin had felt a boost of confidence from their manufactured technicality, similar to the comfort that survey results can provide when carefully polling groups more likely to give you comforting numbers.

The least important person in a business is the most important person in a business.

The last trillion-dollar industry was built on a code of 1s and 0s. The next will be built on our own genetic code.

The leadership of engagement begins by reconnecting to the physicality and the people of a company, not simply its spreadsheet. It all begins in the workplace.

The lows may be the highs in disguise.

The manager needs only a molehill to build a mountain, but the money-ger needs a full mountain to build another.

The mansion has been built in the forest, now to light the fireworks and draw the playmates in.

The marketer’s objective is to grab phone numbers, emails or eyeballs.

The minute you stop caring about your business, is the same minute your business stops caring about you.

The moment I entered the bright, buzzing lobby of Men’s House I was overcome by a sense of alienation and hostility … The lobby was the meeting place for various groups still caught up in the illusions that had just been boomeranged out of my head: college boys working to return to school down South; older advocates of racial progress with utopian schemes for building black business empires; preachers ordained by no authority except their own, without church or congregation, without bread or wine, body or blood; the community “leaders” without followers; old men of sixty or more still caught up in post-Civil War dreams of freedom within segregation; the pathetic ones who possessed noting beyond their dreams of being gentlemen, who held small jobs or drew small pensions, and all pretending to be engaged in some vast, though obscure, enterprise, who affected the pseudo-courtly manners of certain southern congressmen and bowed and nodded as they passed like senile old roosters in a barnyard; they younger crowd for whom I now felt a contempt such as only a disillusioned dreamer feels for those still unaware that they dream—the business students from southern colleges, for whom business was a vague, abstract game with rules as obsolete as Noah’s Ark but who yet were drunk on finance.

The moment you feel like you need to prove yourself, is the moment you need to be silent and walk away.

The money that many think they are saving by not creating correct branding NOW, ends up costing them tenfold or more in the marketing and advertising LATER. A marketing plan without the right #brand blueprint will always cost more, take longer and tend to deliver subpar results compared to a well branded business. Build the foundation strong so that everything placed on top of it can be supported and set up to thrive and succeed.

The more businesses you have, the less work you do.

The more ethical and honest your business is, the harder it is to make money. And you have to understand this going in: when you start a business, being good and moral and ethical and, you know, legal… means you will make less money than someone who simply does not give a fuck. If you’re wondering where all this is going, the point to all this is to hammer into your skull the blunt reality that you and your new business are indistinguishable from the worst examples of the industry, and nobody cares.

The more time you spend judging others, the less time you spend building your dream.

The more value you add to others the more value you add to yourself.

The more you engage and connect, the more engagement and connections you will have.

The most basic question a CEO must answer is whether the product has achieved a value breakthrough. Without that, the revenue engine is irrelevant. Once product-market fit is confirmed, the next step is to clearly identify your ideal customer profile (ICP) and your business model. This includes the lifetime value (LTV) profile of your company. Assuming a strong product, a clear ICP, and a solid understanding of the constraints composed by your unit economics, the path forward is clear. Then, the focus will turn to uplifting the maturity of your revenue engine and scaling it efficiently.

The most devastating thing artists can do to their career is get in their own way, and way too many people do. It’s not the labels, the industry, the fans, the cities, the economy, the social media, the marketing, the promoting, the “right time,” the music, or whatever other excuse you can come up with that determines whether you succeed or you fail. It is you—no one else.

The most frequent cause of failures in business is not people who answered the right questions incorrectly, but people who answered the wrong questions correctly. I have seen many companies “incrementalize” themselves into a corner, through a series of small—what appeared optimal—decisions, often based on erroneous assumptions.

The most important subject in the curriculum in the future years will be how to love ourselves and be content.

The most important principle for self discovery and to taste success is rather than changing other's attitude changes your own. And always remember same sun which melts the butter also hardens the clay

The most hurting response you can give to a client is "I tried".

The most important brands in the world make you feel something. They do that because they have something they want to change. And as customers, we want to be part of that change. These companies have a reason to exist over and above just to make a profit: They have a purpose. Yes, we admire the product they make. But the thing we love the most about them is the change they are making.

The most important job of the top dog is to mingle with subordinates at every strata.

The most important thing to leverage is people. Their talents and connections will take you to great heights.

The most reliable friend you have is your shadow.

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 most successful business in the history of mankind is religion, and it is the most cost effective in franchising its ideology through ignorance and spreading of hate…. Such business has exceeded any expectation, and if it would transcend itself into world trading, it would have been the most valuable stock in any market….ever.

The most radical and far-reaching solutions often need rethinking of processes and deep questioning of the status quo-and these are hard.

Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what began almost as a fad and quickly matured into an unshakable habit, companies were 'restructuring,' 'reengineering,' and generally cutting as many jobs as possible, white collar as well as blue . . . The New York Times captured the new corporate order succintly in 1987, reporting that it 'eschews loyalty to workers, products, corporate structures, businesses, factories, communities, even the nation. All such allegiances are viewed as expendable under the new rules. With survival at stake, only market leadership, strong profits and a high stock price can be allowed to matter'.

The movers & shakers of the world are not imbued with special powers. Once you realize that, you too can attain your rightful mantle.

The numerous choices you have around yourself are often superficial; they don’t matter. The art lies in doing more with less. Minimal requirements, more work.

The on-brand execution of best practices tailored to your unique audience is what leads to the best execution.

The number one rule for a strong mind is to keep a healthy relationship with your belief. You can never be impolite to your heart and promise your mind to reach greatness. Focus.