Obviously businesses do not ...

Obviously businesses do not operate like an artists\' commune. Business involves deploying finite resources to achieve goals in a competitive environment to make money. That is something creative people understand.
Obviously businesses do not operate like an artists' commune. Business involves deploying finite resources to achieve goals in a competitive environment to make money. That is something creative people understand.
 John Kao

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
 Herb Kelleher
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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You are able to monitor and police your standards of quality once you have defined them.
 John Kao
You are able to create an environment so that the creative process can take place and that you can get people to perform at their highest levels.
 John Kao
The mark of the developed intellect is that it could accommodate two contradictory ideas at the same time.
 John Kao
The traditional managerial mind-set is an analytical mind-set. It is about creating accountability and defining responsibilities.
 John Kao
You would not let your kids do whatever they want. So the challenge is to create accountability in a non-mechanistic way. You cannot come in with a clipboard and check off boxes and figure out why something has not been done on schedule.
 John Kao