1. People
Quotes

2. “If you are planning for one year, plant rice
“If you are planning for one year, plant rice. If you are planning for ten years, plant trees. If you are planning for 100 years, plant people“
Chinese Proverb

3. "People have one thing in common-they are all different.“ -Robert Zend

4. Rewarding the wrong things, even if done unintentionally, will hurt the execution process, Thorndike’s age-old law of effect always holds true: Behaviour that is reinforced tends to be repeated”
Hrebiniak

5. “The compensation packages of 70% of middle managers and more than 90% of frontline employees have no link to strategic objectives.”
Kaplan & Norton

6. “Be ruthless in selecting superlative people for your future needs.”
Meriwether Lewis

7. “When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bulls-eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim, improve yourself.”
Gilbert Arland

8. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. “One word of encouragement during a failure is worth a whole book of praise after a success”
James Tingstad

10. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas Edisson 

11. “Everyone who ever died trying to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel was an optimist.”
Jim Nightingale

12. “ If you see a fault in others, think of two of your own, and do not add a third by being hasty.”
Anonymous

13. “It’s painful when you have some people who not are the best people in the world and you have to get rid of them; but I have found that my job has been exactly that-to get rid of some people who didn’t measure up and I’ve always tried to do it in a humane way. But nonetheless it has to be done and it’s never fun.”
Steve Jobs

14. “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.“
Upton Sinclaire

15. “Blessed is he who expecth little; who shall not be greatly disappointed.”
John R Kent

16. “The two most powerful things in existence: a kind word and a thoughtful gesture.” Ken Langone

17. Richard Pascale & Jerry Sternin
“Some where in your organization, groups of people are already doing things differently and better. To create lasting change, find these areas of positive deviance and fan the flames”
Richard Pascale & Jerry Sternin

18. “Leaving your shoes outside means leaving your ego at the door.”
Hindu expression

19. “Nothing happens without personal transformation.” W.E. Deming

20. “We are not intelligent enough to remember everything we know”
Mark Twain

21. “Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead

22. “You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend or not.” Isabel Allende

23. “The top software developers are more productive than average software developers not by a factor of 10X or 100X, or even 1,000X, but 10,000X.” Nathan Myhrvold, former Chief Scientist, Microsoft