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I can walk through the front door of any factory and out the back and tell you if
it’s making money or not. I can just tell by the way it’s being run and by the
spirit of the workers.
—Harvey S. Firestone, founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.
No matter how bright someone is, nothing beats experience. And that takes time.
There is no quick fix, no five easy steps.
—Tony Fernandes, entrepreneur
Men intrinsically do not trust new things that they have not experienced
themselves.
—Machiavelli, Italian Renaissance political philosopher (from his book The Prince, 1515)
Women attribute their success to hard work, luck, and help from other people.
Men will attribute … whatever success they have … to their own core skills.
—Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook
Only so much I know as I have lived.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, lecturer, and poet (from his book The Essential Writings of
Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Brooks Atkinson, 2000)
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is