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  1. At any moment during a twenty-four-hour day, only one-third of the people in the world are asleep. The other two-thirds are awake and creat…
  2. Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
  3. Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade rou…
  4. Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
  5. They all have excellent resumes... So what I'm trying to find out is how they will behave under pressure. Will they lie, or bluff, or panic…
  6. You have to learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself.
  7. Administration is, or ought to be, a necessary overhead to aid production, and should at all times be kept as low as possible.
  8. Why not the best?

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