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"I believe in the notion that if you think about your leadership ability, and work at it, then you can get better at it." Roger Enrico, PepsiCo former CEO As quoted in Business Week Online Leadership Lessons from Roger Enrico

"Getting information in front of a customer in a form the customer wants is critical." Mary Rice, Behr Process Corp marketing vp as quoted in Information Week, January 5, 2004 on how customers can easily compare a variety of paints

"The things you allow to happen when you win you have to live with when you lose." John Madden

"Our goal is to be an essential partner with our customers and help them solve their most pressing issues." Robert D. Walter, Chairman and CEO, Cardinal Health Inc. as quoted in Business Week October 13, 2003 issue, Will Jeff Immelt's New Push Pay off for GE? By Diane Brady

"Over the past few decades or so, we have created a lot of complexity. When you keep buying product after product because vendors keep pushing equipment, you're creating a data-quality problem that causes you to have a lot of inefficiency and a lot of worries." Hossein Eslambolchi, CIO and chief technology officer, AT&T, as quoted in Information Week, September 22, 2003, Technology Drives Telecom Comeback, by David M. Ewalt

"The important thing is for a name to communicate a relevant message of image to the customers you are after." Burt Alper, strategist, Catchword as quoted in USA Today June 25, 2003, Automakers Play Name Game to Attract Younger, Affluent Buyers, by David Kiley

"Clients used to tell us to drop down and do 100 push-ups. Now they say: 'We want you to lead.'" Vivek Paul, Wipro Ltd.

"We are living a nomadic life. We move on if other companies catch up." Hwang Chang Gyu, president, Samsung Electronics Co. memory chip unit

"My job is to visually connect to the emotional world of the customer and to do it with sheet metal. I'm interested in dreams and aspirations, because that's what people hang on to and that's what they want in the products they buy." J Mays, vice president of vehicle design, Ford Motor Company as quoted in USA Today

"We try to anticipate the next change, because change is the medium of opportunity." James C. Morgan, CEO, Applied Materials

"Stepping up to the new reality is a healthy thing. Only those companies that change will survive" Gordon M. Bethune, CEO, Continental Airlines

"There's always that feeling as an actor that wherever you've gotten is some sort of mistake - they're suddenly going to realize that you're not that good." Kevin Bacon

"Growth manages you if you let it."

"The faster I work, the better I work." Steven Spielberg

"Periods of extreme uncertainty create periods of extreme opportunity." Al Goldman, Investment analyst

"Everything is negotiable in this price environment -- with everybody." George Pipas,
Ford chief sales analyst

"We can't start by saying what's the cheapest way to provide a service. If we start by driving costs out and forcing brands into overall standards, we'll lose the trust of our guests." Carl Wilson, Executive Vice President and CIO, Marriott International

"I told the team, 'Let's go for the win. Let's not sit around and see what they are going to do and be passive. Let's run the game and be aggressive like we were in the beginning of the game.' You have to understand that there is no lead safe in the NBA, especially in playoff time." Byron Scott, NJ Nets coach

"Great value-added propositions in this world start not from liberty and license but from need and want and hunger. Breakthroughs come from limits." Paul Hawken, Cofounder and chairman, Groxis. Also founder of Erewhon Trading Co., Smith & Hawken, & Metacode

"When something doesn't sell well, I never say, 'Well, people don't understand it.' If people don't understand it, it doesn't belong in the store." Reed Krakoff, head designer, Coach, Inc.

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