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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.

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If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

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If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

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Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

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To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

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Good design is good business.

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All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

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Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

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The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

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Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: February 17th, 1874

Died: June 19th, 1956

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