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Thursday 31 May 2018

Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes Collection #2 | Quotsagram

Napoleon quote, once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there no longer any ‘if’ or ‘but’.

 Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there no longer any ‘if’ or ‘but’.
 You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss and failure into success.
 Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.
 I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
 The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
 It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
 Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go.
 I would kiss a man’s ass if I needed him.
 The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
 A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
 The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemy's.
 Great men are never cruel without necessity.
 The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.
 In politics, never retreat, never retract, never admit a mistake.
 It requires more courage to suffer than to die
 Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

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Art of War Quotes Collection #2 | Quotsagram

 What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.
 Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.
 The expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.
 The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.
 Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.
 Begin by seizing something, which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.
 Move swift as the wind and closely-formed as the wood. Attack like the fire and be still as the mountain.
 Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm.
 Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.
 He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
 Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
 The wise warrior avoids the battle.
 Who wishes to fight must first count the cost.
 Great results, can be achieved with small forces.
 It is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy.
 Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits.

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Wednesday 30 May 2018

Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

 If I had not been born Napoleon, I would have liked to have been born Alexander.
 History is a set of lies agreed upon.
 There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind.
 Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
 Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
 He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
 Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
 The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.
 We walk faster, when we walk alone.
 There are only two forces that unite men; fear and interest.
 You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
 The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
 Six hours sleep for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool.
 Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
 The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
 Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Robert Cialdini) Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

 The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
 Freedoms once granted will not be relinquished without a fight.
 Embarrassment is a villain to be crushed.
 Our typical reaction to scarcity hinders our ability to think.
 People seem to be more motivated by the thought of losing something than by the thought of gaining something of equal value.
 Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.
 Often we don’t realize that our attitude toward something has been influenced by the number of times we have been exposed to it in the past.
 Be as precise as possible about your need for aid.
 Persons who go through a great deal of trouble or pain to attain something tend to value it more highly than persons who attain the same thing with a minimum of effort.
 There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
 The feeling of being in competition for scarce resources has powerfully motivating properties.
 There is a natural human tendency to dislike a person who brings us unpleasant information, even when that person did not cause the bad news. The simple association with it is enough to stimulate our dislike.
 Revolutionaries are more likely to be those who have been given at least some taste of a better life.
 We all fool ourselves from time to time in order to keep our thoughts and beliefs consistent with what we have already done or decided.

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Sunday 27 May 2018

Les Brown Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

 Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.
 Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
 If you don’t program yourself, life will program you.
 In every day, there are 1,440 minutes, that means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.
 The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
 The best gifts are those, we not only cherish, but put to use.
 If you run around with nine losers, pretty soon, you’ll be the tenth one.
 I can’t control what life hands me. What I can control is how I handle it.
 Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it.
 It really doesn’t matter what’s going on right now. The only thing that matters is what you’re going to do about it. Do something powerful.
 When we spend our time looking at what other people do or what they have, we deprive ourselves of the opportunity to see our own value.
 You don’t get what you want in life. You get who you are
 Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.
 When your why is big enough you will find your how.
 In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you achieve, that is most important.

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Jack Welch Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

 The 3S's of winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.
 Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.
 If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.
 Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
 Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.
 The secret of success is changing the way you think.
 Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.
 Companies don't give job security. Only satisfied customers do.
 It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.
 A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be.
 Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.
 When you were made a leader, you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.
 If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
 For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple.
 In the end, your integrity is all you've got.

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Chanakya Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

 Let not a single day pass without you learning a verse, or half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it. 
 Test a servant while in discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
 He is a true friend, who does not forsake us in time of need, misfortune, famine, war, in a king's court, or at the crematorium.
 Those parents, who do not educate their sons, are their enemies.
Chanakya Quotes about non-venomous snakes

 A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and the living in a house with a serpent in it, are nothing but death.
 Do not put your trust in a bad companion or an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.
 He, whose son is obedient to him, whose wife's conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches, has his heaven here on earth.
 Untruthfulness, rashness, guile, stupidity, avarice, uncleanliness and cruelty are a women's seven natural flaws.
 Never live in a country where you are not respected, cannot earn your livelihood, have no friends, or cannot acquire knowledge.
 A Brahmin's strength is in his learning, a King's strength is in his army, a Vaishya's strength is in his wealth and a Shudra's strength is in his attitude of service.
 Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.

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Saturday 26 May 2018

Philip Kotler Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

 Authentic marketing is not the art of selling what you make, but knowing what to make.
 Marketing is a race without a finishing line.
 The future isn’t ahead of us. It has already happened.
 Poor firms ignore their competitors; average firms copy their competitors; winning firms lead their competitors.
 It is more important to do what is strategically right than what is immediately profitable.
 The successful salesperson cares first for the customer, second for the products.
 There is only one winning strategy. It is to carefully define the target market and direct a superior offering to that target market.
 Whenever someone wonders how I could have written 57 books, I remind them that Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books.
 Marketing takes a day to learn. Unfortunately, it takes a lifetime to master.
 The sales department isn’t the whole company, but the whole company better be the sales department.
 Strategy is indeed about choosing what not to do as well as what to do.
 It is no longer enough to satisfy your customers. You must delight them.
 A country's middle class is its bedrock.
 The art of marketing is the art of brand building. If you are not a brand, you are a commodity. Then price is everything and the low-cost producer is the only winner.
 Good companies will meet needs; great companies will create markets.

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James C. Collins Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

 Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great. 
 The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.
 Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.
 Resilency, not perfection, is the signature of greatness.
 Don't take care of your career. Take care of your people. They will take care of your career.
 The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don't need them.
 The essence of profound insight is simplicity.
 Great vision without great people is irrelevant.
 In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
 Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
 The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
 If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.
 Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats.
 The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.
 An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
 Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
 Most people will look back and realize they did not have a great life because it's just so easy to settle for a good life.

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Chanakya Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

 Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourselves. 
 Conciliate a covetous man by means of a gift, an obstinate man with folded hands in salutation, a fool by humoring him, and a learned man by truthful words.
 Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.
 Among men the barber is cunning; among birds the crow; among beasts the jackal; and among women, the malin (flower girl).
 Rain which falls upon the sea is useless;
so is food for one who is satiated;
in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy;
and a burning lamp during the daytime is useless.
 There is no disease like lust; no enemy like infatuation; no fire like wrath; and no happiness like spiritual knowledge.
 He who is only partially educated cannot speak agreeably, and he who speaks out plainly, cannot be a deceiver
 When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.
 Charity puts an end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.
 A single son endowed with good qualities is far better than a hundred devoid of them.
 He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.
 The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.
 He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.
 Fondle a son until he is five years of age, and use the stick for another ten years, but when he has attained his sixteenth year treat him as a friend.
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