15. Our business in life is not to get ahead of others,
but to get ahead of ourselves,
to break our own records,
to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
-Stewart B. Johnson

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14. Good business leaders create a vision,
articulate the vision,
passionately own the vision,
and relentlessly drive it to completion.
-Jack Welch

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13. It is difficult, but not impossible,
to conduct strictly honest business.
-Mahatma Gandhi

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12. Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game,
because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win.
Setting your own standards, and living up to them,
is a better way to profit.
Not to mention a better way
to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.
-Seth Godin

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11. You can't do today's job with yesterday's methods
and be in business tomorrow.
-unknown

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10. The success combination in business is:
Do what you do better and do more of what you do.
-David Joseph Schwartz

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9. Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
-Benjamin Franklin

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8. Always treat your employees
exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
-Stephen R. Covey

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7. Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen,
well-timed, sincere words of praise.
They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
-Sam Walton

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6. Whenever you see a successful business,
someone once made a courageous decision.
-Peter Drucker

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5. In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words:
people, product and profits.
Unless you've got a good team,
you can't do much with the other two.
-Lee Iacocca

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4. It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
-Harvey S. Firestone

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3. A word of encouragement during a failure
is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
-unknown

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2. If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results.
You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
-Stephen R. Covey

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1. A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed
from a kick in the pants,
but is miles ahead in results.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox