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 Stephen Covey: “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities” Theo Gold: “You cannot become stronger without resistance” Franklin D. Roosevelt: “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today” Charles Darwin: “It’s not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change” Peter Drucker: “Accept the fact that we will have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer” Dwight D. Eisenhower: “Planning is everything. the plan is nothing” Stephen Hawking: “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change” Theo Gold: “You cannot become stronger without resistance” Fujio Cho: “We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes – while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes” John Wooden: “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do” 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” Steve Jobs: “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do” Marissa Mayer: “Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter” Bob Parsons: “Anything that is measured and watched, improves” Benjamin Franklin: “Well done is better than well said” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do” Leo Tolstoy: “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself” Caterina Fake: “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard” 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” Stephen Covey: “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities” Buddha: “The mind is everything. What you think you become” Robert Collier: “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” Winston Churchill: “Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning” Mahatma Gandhi: “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do is in harmony” Mahatma Gandhi: “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do is in harmony” Marissa Mayer: “Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter” Benjamin Franklin: “Well done is better than well said” 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” Buddha: “The mind is everything. What you think you become” Henry Ford: “Coming together is the beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success” Tom Peters: “The Marketplace is so demanding that we burn the policy manuals and knock off the incessant memo writing; there’s just no time. It also demands we empower everyone to constantly take initiatives. It turns out stories are a – if not the – leadership answer to both issues” Henry Ford: “If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere” Bill Gates: “We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve” Dwight D. Eisenhower: “Planning is everything. the plan is nothing” Steve Jobs: “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do” Albert Einstein: “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new” Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit” Winston Churchill: “Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning” John Wooden: “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do” Steve Jobs: “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do” We use cookies to help create a brilliant online experience. By continuing to use our website you accept that cookies may be stored on your device. It's standard stuff, but if you'd like to know more click Cookie Settings.I ACCEPTClose
