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• Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.

  Rick Warren

  Spiritual, Character, Opportunity

  Rick Warren (2010). “Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life: Scriptures and Reflections from the 40 Days of Purpose”, p.97, Harper Collins

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• It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Important, Alliances

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• Gradually, physicists began to realise that nature, at the atomic level, does not appear as a mechanical universe composed of fundamental building blocks, but rather as a network of relations, and that, ultimately, there are no parts at all in this interconnected web. Whatever we call a part is merely a pattern that has some stability and therefore captures our attention.

  Fritjof Capra

  Block, Doe, Attention

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• Broken Window Theory: Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may even break into the building, and if it's unoccupied, perhaps become squatters or light fires inside. Or consider a sidewalk. Some litter accumulates. Soon, more litter accumulates. Eventually, people even start leaving bags of trash from take-out restaurants there or even break into cars.

  James Q. Wilson

  Fire, Light, Car

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• The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city.

  Lewis Mumford

  Cities, Age, Vehicle

  Lewis Mumford (1964). “The High Way and the City”, New American Library of Canada

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• Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base

  Gavin Newsom

  Book, Pressure, Small Business

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• O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,
  That draws oblivion's curtains over kings;
  Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not,
  Their names without a record are forgot,
  Their parts, their ports, their pomps all laid in th' dust
  Nor wit nor gold, nor buildings scape time's rust;
  But he whose name is graved in the white stone
  Shall last and shine when all of these are gone.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Kings, Men, Dust

  Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.381

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• No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

  Marc Andreessen

  Growth, Easy, Should

  "Why Software Is Eating The World" by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

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• Startups are painful, stressful and at times demoralizing. You need to be a true believer in the vision of what you are doing. You need to passionate about it and love what you’re doing. If you don’t, there is no way you can sustain the hours, stress and disappointment. There’s no way you’re going to be able to convince investors, customers and most importantly recruit a world-class team if you not building something you think is going to change the world.

  Steve Blank

  Disappointment, Stress, Team

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• In a startup no facts exist inside the building, only opinions.

  Steve Blank

  Facts, Opinion

  Steve Blank (2013). “The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win”, p.32, BookBaby

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• As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly to the learning you seek.

  Eric Ries

  Simple, Effort, Doe

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.110, Crown Business

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• Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction is a failure on the part of team members to understand and open up to one another. And if that sounds touchy-feely, let me explain, because there is nothing soft about it. It is an absolutely critical part of building a team. In fact, it’s probably the most critical.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Real, Dysfunction

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.41, John Wiley & Sons

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• You see in Turkey, they had a remarkable success story in building up a democracy. I was in Istanbul for most of the year 1950. That was the year when the government held free and fair election, was defeated and simply withdrew from power and handed it over to the opposition, without precedent in Middle Eastern history. That was a really remarkable time and it was a fascinating and rewarding experience to be there at that time.

  Bernard Lewis

  Democracy, Election, Defeated

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• If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Team, People

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• Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Strong, Team, Simple

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• As difficult as it is to build a team, it is not complicated. In fact, keeping it simple is critical, whether you run the executive staff at a multi-national company, a small department within a larger organization, or even if you are merely a member of a team that needs improvement.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Running, Team, Simple

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• Saying hello doesn't have an ROI. It's about building relationships.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Success, Roi, Saying Hello

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• Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.

  Fisher Ames

  Fire, Historical, Democracy

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• By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Soccer, Mother, Children

  "The centre of my universe" by Ayelet Waldman, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2005.

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• Don't wait till you are big before you begin building your brand. Build a brand from scratch alongside your business.

  Richard Branson

  Waiting, Survival, Scratches

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• Millions of Americans have contributed to building a stronger Israel; I've been proud to be one of them. Last year, I went to Jerusalem to help dedicate in my father's name a new MDA medical facility which treats people of all faiths and all nationalities absolutely equally.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Father, Israel, Years

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• In his or her life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. Builders may take years over their tasks, but one day they will finish what they are doing. Then they will stop, hemmed in by their own walls. Life becomes meaningless once the building is finished. Those who plant suffer the storms and the seasons and rarely rest. Unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And by its constant demands on the gardner's attentions, it makes of the gardener's life a great adventure.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Wall, Attitude

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• There isn’t any significant difference between the various brands of whiskey, or cigarettes or beer. They are all about the same. And so are the cake mixes and the detergents, and the margarines… The manufacturer who dedicates his advertising to building the most sharply defined personality for his brand will get the largest share of the market at the highest profit.

  David Ogilvy

  Beer, Cake, Differences

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Embedded in the gospel of Jesus Christ there are eternal principles and truths that will last far longer than the principles of building ships and roofs. You and I, as members of the Lord's true Church, have special access and insight into these eternal principles and truths, especially when we listen to the Spirit for individual guidance and hear the prophet's voice as he declares the will of God to the members of the Church. You and I both know how important these eternal principles and truths are in our lives.

  L. Tom Perry

  Jesus, Voice, Special

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• Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the falsehoods in socialism, organic evolution, rationalism, humanism, and so forth.…And our nation will continue to degenerate unless we read and heed the words of the God of this land, Jesus Christ, and quit building up and upholding the secret combinations which the Book of Mormon tells us proved the downfall of both previous American civilizations.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Book, Teaching

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