Hideyoshi Toyotomi Quotes

#1. Greatness as a leader is measured in part by your willingness to accept daunting challenges. Achieving tough goals requires practicing the secret of commitment: Risk all to win all.

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#2. But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

Ted Shackelford

#3. Fight only after creating conditions for victory.

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#4. The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.

Camille Paglia

#5. Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision

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#6. Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position

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#7. I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

Dennis Potter

#8. How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.

Toni Morrison

#9. Leaders can be wrong - but they can not be unclear.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

#10. Whether in commerce, administration, or on the battlefield, leaders who win understand the Secret of Victory: Act first to finish first.

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#11. The seeds of great victory lie in minor triumphs.

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#12. The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types of arms. The possession of these elements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues, and tends to permit uprising.

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#13. In a way, I was incrediibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).

Meg Cabot

#14. Youth and vision make an unbeatable combination.

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#15. Be a leader, not a superior.

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#16. Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.

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#17. Luck favors the bold. Leaders must fearlessly exploit the Secret of Decisiveness. Act boldly at critical moments.

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#18. The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed.

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#19. Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them.

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#20. The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.

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#21. Compensation is counterintuitive: The more treasure you give away to those who serve well, the more treasure will return to you. But few people perceive this simple truth. Most try to keep as much as they can for themselves and give little away. That's why their purses refuse to fatten.

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#22. I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.

Rem Koolhaas

#23. What leader has no lessons to learn from his followers?

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#24. Remember kids: brush your greens, eat your teeth, stay in milk, drink your school, don't do sleep, and get your eight hours of drugs!

Robert Smigel

#25. Little Bird if you don't sing for me I will make you sing

Toyotomi Hideyoshi