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  One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Trust, Karma

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• The single biggest barrier to effective leadership is, in my view, the leadership industry itself. Instead of telling people the skills and behaviors they need to be effective in getting things done, we tell them almost the opposite - blandishments about how we wish people would be, and how we wish workplaces were. That information is worse than useless as, to the extent people believe it, they often wind up losing their jobs.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Jobs, Believe, Views

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think we need to embrace feminism, we need to embrace all of the gifts women bring to the workplace. 

  Mary Portas

  Thinking, Feminism, Needs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• A balance is necessary in life. To achieve this we must move away from broad definitions of workplaces as functional and households as emotional. Similarly, home, the haven in a heartless world, as defined by men, cannot be used by them as an antidote to the workplace's discomforts and demands, if this means having the wife as a servicer.

  Eva Cox

  Leadership, Moving, Home

  Eva Cox (1996). “Leading Women”

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• You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, People, Innovation

  "Chairman Jobs? The Guessing Goes On", www.wired.com. July 31, 1997.

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• We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Mother, Daughter, Law

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• Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life - looking for a reason to laugh is necessary. A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times.

  Steve Goodier

  Home, Differences, Laughing

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• And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.

  Dave Eggers

  Home, People, Able

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• The more you think, the more time you have.

  Henry Ford

  Time, Work, Creativity

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• Workplace culture within which personal growth and professional development are most likely to thrive is basically, an environment that gives people the chance or even pushes them to try new activities and take on new challenges that build on the skills and experiences they have.

  Joseph Badaracco

  People, Giving, Challenges

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The main way to reduce stress in the workplace is by picking the right people.

  Jesse Schell

  Stress, People, Way

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• It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces.

  Emma Watson

  Home, Government, Understanding

  Speech About Gender Equality at World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, www.eonline.com. January 23, 2015.

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• Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas.

  Arthur Miller

  Happy, Trust, Communication

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• I believed that we would all come to better decisions and we would create more humane and ultimately more livable and more sustainably productive workplaces if we knew how to speak to each other about difficult issues and if we were more able to listen to and learn from diverse points of view.

  Mary C. Gentile

  Decision, Speak, Point Of View

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• I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.

  Rachel Roy

  Needs, Demand, Bigs

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• When we spoke about workplaces in 1972 we mainly were referring to old-line manufacturing firms, on the one hand, and Main St. shops and restaurants, on the other. Both of those categories are now insignificant in terms of employment. Today, the economy is dominated by the rapidly growing Low-Cost Operators - national discount and mall chain stores, fast food franchises and supermarkets - which offer employees low salaries, few benefits and little training.

  James O'Toole

  Training, Today, Fast Food

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. 2008.

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• Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.

  Albert Speer

  Improvement, Factories, Staff

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• To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.

  Stephen Covey

  Memories, Creativity, Successful

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• Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed.

  Eli Broad

  Teacher, Succeed, Responsible

  "Management Experience Is Paramount" by Eli Broad, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2010.

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• On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.

  Alain de Botton

  Space, Community, Atmosphere

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• I don't support an amnesty.(Cornyn) demands an ongoing focus on security and workplace enforcement before considering steps to grant legal status, let alone citizenship.

  John Cornyn

  Focus, Support, Immigration

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• Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

  Peter Drucker

  Success, Business, Creativity

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.67, Routledge

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• The time to fix our broken immigration system is now... We need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace... But for reform to work, we also must respond to what pulls people to America... Where we can reunite families, we should. Where we can bring in more foreign-born workers with the skills our economy needs, we should.

  Barack Obama

  Skills, America, People

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