Mark Helprin
"It seems clear even in these years of squalid degradation that having risked death for the sake of honor is better than having risked dishonor for the sake of life."
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George Bernard Shaw
"The unreasonable man attempts to adapt the world to himself. The reasonable man attempts to adapt himself to the world. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
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H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"The true rewards of leadership come from striving to look up to a higher moral standard..Good leaders sometimes, in fact, quite often, lose in the material world. They go right ahead anyway, knowing that they are going to lose. Are they tilting at windmills? Do they have a 'can't do' attitude instead of a 'can-do' attitude? Of course not. They are committed to defending the right values. And the right values are seldom safe, easy, or advantageous."
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Mary Lou Cook
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."
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Jim Collins
"They never talked in reactionary terms and never defined their strategies principally in response to what others were doing. They talked in terms of what they were trying to create and how they were trying to improve relative to an absolute standard of excellence."
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Jim Collins
"Those who turn good (organizations) into great (organizations) are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.
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