Featured insights Article Rapid-Fire Fulfillment By Kasra Ferdows, Michael A. Lewis and Jose A.D. Machuca, From the HBR November 2004 Issue When a German wholesaler suddenly canceled a big lingerie order in 1975, Amancio Ortega thought his fledgling clothing company might go bankrupt. All his capital was tied up in the order. There were no other buyers. In desperation, he opened a shop near his factory in La Coruña, in the far northwest corner of […] Article Strategy & the Fat Smoker Article How Managers Drive Results and Employee Engagement at the Same Time Article Managing Your Mission-Critical Knowledge Article Cracking the Code of Sustained Collaboration Jack Welch: “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others” Marissa Mayer: “Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter” Theo Gold: “You cannot become stronger without resistance” Henry Ford: “Coming together is the beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success” Jack Welch: “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others” Stephen Hawking: “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change” Stephen Hawking: “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change” 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” Morihei Ueshiba: "Life Is Growth. If We Stop Growing, Technically And Spiritually, We Are As Good As Dead" Henry Ford: “Coming together is the beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success” Robert Collier: “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” Buddha: “The mind is everything. What you think you become” Albert Einstein: “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new” Stephen Hawking: “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change” Benjamin Franklin: “Well done is better than well said” Theo Gold: “You cannot become stronger without resistance” Dwight D. Eisenhower: “Planning is everything. the plan is nothing” Jeff Bezos: “Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room” Henry Ford: “If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” Benjamin Franklin: “Well done is better than well said” Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit” Bill Copeland: “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” Pat Summitt: “Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before” George Halas: “Nobody who ever gave his best, regretted it” Stephen Hawking: “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change” Peter Drucker: “Accept the fact that we will have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer” Jack Welch: “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others” Leo Tolstoy: “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself” 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” Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. 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