Prof. M.M. Pant
In the Business of Thinking
Quotation Base
"The quality of your ideas will be in direct proportion to the quantity of ideas you generate."
[12th August 2010]
"You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place." — Albert Einstein
[2nd August 2010]
"Superior leader are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you've changed your mind. Don't persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one."
[28th July 2010]
"Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement – you are your most precious resource."
[5th July 2010]
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"Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results."
[30th June 2010]
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"Take time to listen to your people when they want to talk. This is a real motivator."
[29th June 2010]
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"What is your mission? Why does you organization exist at all?"
[28th June 2010]
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"Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day."
[26th June 2010]
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"The best leaders have a high "Consideration Factor". They really care about their people."
[14th June 2010]
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"Manage by exception. Only require reporting when there is a deviation from the plan."
[12th June 2010]
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"Manage by responsibility. It is a powerful way to grow people."
[11th June 2010]
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"Manage by objectives. Tell people exactly what you want them to do and then get out of their way."
[10th June 2010]
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"Good leaders make sure that everyone knows what is expected, every single day."
[9th June 2010]
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"Do you care about "me"? Answer this question of your staff on every possible occasion."
[8th June 2010]
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"The most powerful and predictable people-builders are praise and encouragement."
[7th June 2010]
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"The average person works at 50 percent or less of potential. Your job is to unleash that extra 50 percent."
[22nd May 2010]
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"Quality is what the customer says it is. How do your customers define quality?"
[21st May 2010]
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"Superior executives amaze and delight their customers. Do you?"
[20th May 2010]
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"Apply the 80/20 Rule to everything you do. What are your highest-value activities?"
[19th May 2010]
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"Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance."
[18th May 2010]
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"Leadership in business is ultimately expressed in financial results. Continually seek ways to increase revenues or reduce costs."
[17th May 2010]
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"Take arms against a sea of troubles, and in so doing, and them." —Shakespeare
[15th May 2010]
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"Be willing to abandon your old ideas if someone comes up with something new and better."
[14th May 2010]
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"Everyone is in the business of customer satisfaction. Who are your customers and how are you doing."
[13th May 2010]
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"Become the kind of person that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position."
[12th May 2010]
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"People are your most valuable asset. Only people can be made to appreciate in value."
[11th May 2010]
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"Restructure your activities continually. Regularly move resources to higher-value activities."
[10th May 2010]
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"Imagine starting over. Think of reinvesting yourself and your business every year."
[8th May 2010]
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"Continually seek ways to increase productivity, performance, and output."
[7th May 2010]
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"Identify your key result areas and then dedicate yourself to becoming very good in each one of them."
[6th May 2010]
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"Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, "If it's to be, it's up to me.""
[5th May 2010]
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"Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership."
[4th May 2010]
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"Men must be taught at the school of example, for they will learn at no other."
—Albert Schweitzer, humanitarian, Nobel Prize winner
[3rd May 2010]
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"Once you have determined your goal, concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, until it is achieved."
[1st May 2010]
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"Focus on your strengths. What are you uniquely capable of contributing to your situation?"
[30th April 2010]
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"Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won."
[29th April 2010]
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"Practice "Tip-of-the-Iceberg-Thinking". Treat every unexpected event as if it were an indication of a trend."
[28th April 2010]
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"Is there anyone working for you who, knowing what you now know, you wouldn't hire again?"
[27th April 2010]
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"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
[26th April 2010]
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"Face the world as it is, not as you wish it were."
[24th April 2010]
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"Trust you intuition—listen to your inner voice."
[23rd April 2010]
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"To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before."
[22nd April 2010]
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"Errant assumptions lie at the root of every failure. What are yours? What if they are wrong?"
[21st April 2010]
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"Get the facts! Not the apparent facts, the assumed facts, or the hoped-for facts, but the real facts."
[20th April 2010]
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"Your ability to make good decisions will determine your success as much as any other factor."
[19th April 2010]
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"Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership."
[17th April 2010]
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"Concentrate your powers. Identify what you are particularly good at doing and do more of it."
[16th April 2010]
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"Inventory can be managed; people must be led—by example." — Ross Perot
[15th April 2010]
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"What is your Limiting Step? What sets the speed at which you accomplish your main goals?"
[14th April 2010]
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"Practice "Creative Procrastination" with low-value tasks. Put them off indefinitely."
[13th April 2010]
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"Simplify the task. Continually look for faster, better, easier way to get the job done."
[12th April 2010]
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"Identify your areas of strength and concentrate on those areas in which you can make a major contribution."
[10th April 2010]
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"Clarity is the key to effective leadership. What are your goals?"
[9th April 2010]
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"Ask yourself continually, "What can I and only I do that, if done well, will make a real difference?""
[8th April 2010]
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"Lead the field! Start earlier, work harder, and stay later."
[7th April 2010]
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"Fast tempo is essential for success; do it, fix it, try it!."
[6th April 2010]
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"Develop a bias for action, a "Sense of Urgency", to get thing done."
[5th April 2010]
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"All work is done by teams; the leader's output is the output of his or her team."
[3rd April 2010]
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"Leaders are those who determine the "Area of Excellence" for the group."
[2nd April 2010]
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"Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people."
[1st April 2010]
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Be Creative — "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your success."
[30th March 2010]
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Focus — "Only who can see the impossible can do the impossible."
[29th March 2010]
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Solution — "The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution."
[28th March 2010]
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Self Confidence — "You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right."
[27th March 2010]
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Complexity — "Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge."
[26th March 2010]
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Cooperation — "Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging."
[25th March 2010]
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Courage and Strength — "Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success."
[23rd March 2010]
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Teamwork — "Without a sense of teamwork it's really hard to build a great business."
[21st March 2010]
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The Will to Win — "What does it take to be a champion -- Desire, Dedication, Determination, Concentration and the will to win."
[19th March 2010]
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Goal — "Each an every step you take must move you towards your Goal."
[17th March 2010]
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Champion — "What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win."
[15th March 2010]
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Motivation — "Ability is what you're capable of doing, Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
[15th February 2010]
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Knowledge — "One's Mind once stretched by a new idea, never regain its original dimensions."
[12th January 2010]
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"The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible and the human mind will never be threatened with unemployment" -- Genrich Altshuller, author of the Innovation Algorithm
[28th December 2009]
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"The first career choice of a child growing up in South Asia should not be working for a company but to launch launch his own company; let us believe in these dreams." -- Md. Yunus, Nobel Prize Winner
[14th December 2009]
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"Any information product or project has to keep the mobile in mind. The mobile phone will become the universal, personal-connectivity, information and entertainment hub that it has long promised to be-for nearly half its billion-plus people. We're less than 3 months away from a revolution. More smartphones, 3G, number portability, cheap long distance calling, data and multimedia applications; limitations pricing and battery life. (may need charging twice a day). It is expected that by 2010 about one in five mobiles sold will be a smartphone."
[2nd December 2009]