business

When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

Vision without an Action is Illusion. Action without a Vision is Confusion.

Be the competition you wish to see in the world.

Fear would have told the Wright brothers not to fly. Fear would have told Rosa Parks to change seats. Fear would have told Steve Jobs that people hate touchscreens.

Your job is not to be a fire killer. Your job is to prevent fires.

The way to be irreplaceable is to become a social innovator. Start projects that motivate you to save the world and simultaneously make you money (and create mindshare) for your company. Social innovation makes magic happen.

Warren Cox, God knew, was no prize; a commercial person, a sales person, the kind of man who said things like "x numbers of dollars". At lunch today, laboriously trying to explain some business procedure, he had said "x number of dollars" three times.

1. Do consumers recognize that they have the problem you are trying to solve?2. If there was a solution, would they buy it?3. Would they buy it from us?4. Can we build a solution for that problem?

To be very wealthy, you have to program yourself as a machine with targets to reach.

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

Affirming others isn__ __lattering_ them__t__ when you genuinely and consistently acknowledge their efforts and accomplishments, both large and small. Make affirmation a habit and watch what happens!

When a person travels through a few years with an organization, or with a partnership, or any other kind of working association, he leaves a 'wake' behind in these two areas, task and relationship: what did he accomplish and how did he deal with people?

Business is leisure when you find pleasure in it.

friendly people serving friendly people

mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy

Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn__ happen by accident.

Are engineers better at business than business people? It__ debatable. Business people certainly seems to have bigger houses, drive fancier cars, wear nicer clothes and have better looking mates. Engineers lack the time management skills to spend that kind of money. They waste all their time inventing ways to make the most money in the quickest, most efficient way possible. And then when they figure it out, they optimize the process.