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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate read more
I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed read more
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
Leave no question in anyone's mind as to where you stand.
Leave no question in anyone's mind as to where you stand.
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, read more
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they read more
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.