"If you want to run fast, run by yourself - If you wnat to run far, run with someone else" - Unknown

The power of teamwork..

"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else" - Winston Curchill

One of my favorite quotes ! Henry Ford also said nearly the same: "whether you believe you can, or you believe you can not, you will be right!" and Churchill is also quoted with the following definition: "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty"

"Nobody train to get their butts kicked" - Nike slogan

I love that - always play to win !

"if everything seems under control, you are simply not going fast enough " - Mario Andretti

I love this quote - complacency is a real danger in both life and business.

"If you do exactly what business schools teach you, you are almost certain to fail" - Clayton Christensen, HBS Prof.

This quote is very insightful, and I thought it was thought-provoking that a HBS Professor said this, but when you think about it it actually makes sense. Theory seldom works if applied blindly, but needs to be adapted to the situation at hand. Reflecting and disagreeing with theories often carries a lot of value as well.

"Assumptions are the mother of all fuck ups" - Bruce Willis

I doubt that Bruce Willis is the source of this one liner, but it is actually a great reminder that small and seemingly innocent assumptions in decisions, can have fatal consequences. who said NPV calculations !

"Hope is not a strategy" - unknown

Too many strategies rely on factors completely outside anyones control. I like this quote as it reminds me to focus on what I can change and plan for different scenarios for the factors which I have no control over.

"No amount of success in business, however glittery or grand, will justify failure at home" - HBS Dean in graduation speech to Harvard MBA's

A fantastic quote, and a powerful message to MBA graduates from the HBS Dean. I like it for its crisp simplicity, and what I mean about that is that the world is not normally black and white, but in this case it really is ! (a related quote I once heard was "I have yet to meet the man, who on his retirement says Gee, I wish I had spend more time in the office")

"courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" - Winston Churchill

For those of you in the shipping market these days, this quote might come in handy ;-)

"your customers rarely buy, what you think you are selling" - Drucker

Many companies are internally focused, and spend more time designing products and services than they do in truly understanding what it is customers want.

"Dont ask your barber if you need a haircut!" - Warren Buffet

I often forget to think about the bias a person may have when answering a question, and getting a second opinion from someone who do not have a chip in the game is often a good idea.

"If you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount" - unknown

Its easy to select, but often difficult to de-select!

"You can teach a monkey to fly an airplane...as long as you have enough bananas" - unknown

Obviously a joke, but it is a reminder that the impossible can become possible if the incentives are big enough.

"I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty" - Groucho Marx

Richard Branson also once said " the fastest way to become a millionaire, is to start as a billionaire and open an airline" - learning from failure and keeping a sense of humour is a rare trait.

"A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new" - Albert Einstein

there is never a direct line towards the target, when innovating.

"Beware of geeks bearing formulas" - Warren Buffet

A wealth of data is not always good, and dangerous theories can easily be created !

I want to live in a country where the temperature is higher than the tax rate !

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