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• Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.

  Daniel Goleman

  Achievement, Focus, East

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• Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.

  Hannah Arendt

  Integrity, Deeds

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• The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

  Bob Iger

  Heart, Creativity, Soul

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• The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Wall, Roles, Television

  FaceBook post by Mumia Abu Jamal from Sep 02, 2011

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• There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.

  Ernesto Sirolli

  Motivation, Inspiration, Successful

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• Instead of instilling fear, if a company offered a way for everyone in the business to dive within-to start expanding energy and intelligence-people would work overtime for free. They would be far more creative. And the company would just leap forward. This is the way it can be. It's not the way it is, but it could be that way so easily.

  David Lynch

  Fear, People, Creative

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• Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.

  Tory Burch

  Entrepreneur, Want, Kind

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• Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.

  Paulo Coelho

  Blessed, Judging, Solitude

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• Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Teamwork, Mean, Army

  FaceBook post by Simon Mainwaring from Sep 09, 2015

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• Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Being Yourself, Loneliness, Opposites

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• The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

  William Temple

  Inspirational, Men, Effectiveness

  Sir William Temple (1814). “The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart: To which is Prefixed, the Life and Character of the Author, Considerably Enlarged”, p.547

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• Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why it works when it’s good, not why it doesn’t when it’s bad.

  Stephen King

  Book, Writing, Bullshit

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Associate only with positive, focused people who you can learn from and who will not drain your valuable energy with uninspiring attitudes. By developing relationships with those committed to constant improvement and the pursuit of the best that life has to offer, you will have plenty of company on your path to the top of whatever mountain you seek to climb.

  Robin Sharma

  Happiness, Attitude, People

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.227, Jaico Publishing House

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• When you’re in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Firsts, Succeed

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• To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.

  Umar

  Friendship, True Friend, Islamic

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• I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.

  Paul Bley

  Music, Running, Thinking

  "Paul Bley obituary" by Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2016.

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• A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals.

  Robert S. Kaplan

  Business, Order, Accomplishment

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• If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.

  Lou Gerstner

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens.

  James Mattis

  Inspirational, Courage, War

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• Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone.

  Jens Jensen

  Tree, Stand Alone, Plant

  Jens Jensen (1990). “Siftings”, p.42, JHU Press

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• You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in D.C. in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We're not radical. Radicals work for oil companies. The CEO of Exxon gets up every morning and goes to work changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere. No one has ever done anything as radical as that, not in all of human history.

  Bill McKibben

  Change, Morning, Work

  "The Most Important News Story of the Day/Millennium" by Bill McKibben, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2011.

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• Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.

  Napoleon Hill

  Life, Motivational, Thinking

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• My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hate, Being Alone, Offering

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• Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.

  Guillermo Maldonado

  Life, Happy, Loneliness

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• The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.

  Masaaki Imai

  Business, Kaizen, Messages

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