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I always told people in the private sector, 'You can be the smartest person in the world, you can have the very best ideas, but if you can't sell them and you can't get other people to work with you, you're not going to succeed.'

For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.

I like a good cliche because it reminds you that much of management practice boils down to things you need to do but often forget or fail to do often enough.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.