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Commentary © 2007- 2009 Richard Chandler & Bonnett Chandler
Dr. Peter is most famous for articulating his concept, which he called ‘The Peter Principle’, best summed up in this statement: “In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” His extensive writings include a quotations book, which we use for our work here. He likes witty sayings - those of others and the ones that he made up…
“The problem with success is that its formula is the same as the one for ulcers.”
- Lawrence J. Peter (1919-1990)
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Bill Cosby, who over the last few years has been speaking about the need for people to take responsibility for themselves, encourages us to solve our problems and not be so concerned that some of our peers may judge us harshly.
“It’s not what they’re doing to us. It’s what we’re not doing…”
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
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While writing his many plays, stories and novels, Shaw supported himself as a journalist, writing for various publications as a book, art and music critic. He lived to age 94 and was a very prolific writer and therefore, as evidenced by this quotation, wasn’t all wrapped up in himself.
“Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.”
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
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While I appreciate the evident enthusiasm for entrepreneurship and other creative ventures implied in this quotation by Mr. Schwartz, in my own experience, I have rarely seen exactly how to make what I visualize happen. What is more common for me is to visualize something not all that clearly, and then do something that is immediately evident which moves the idea forward and towards physical manifestation. Once engaged in this process, I experience the clarity of the vision increasing at the same time as the ways of implementing the vision gradually reveal themselves. It is the farthest thing from being exact.
“The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.”
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Samuel Clemens, who took the pen name of Mark Twain, worked hard to earn livelihood, first as a twelve-year-old typesetter for various printers, then a steamboat pilot, a miner and eventually a journalist. In addition to writing and having his works published, he began to lecture, which earned him fame and much more money than non-lecturing writers.
“Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s I mean.”
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In a July 11, 1979 Merla Zellerbach San Francisco Chronicle article about success, Bob Hope states:
“I’ve always been in the right place at the right time. Of course, I steered myself there.”
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From Peter Drucker, one of the innovators of the “information age” who valued economy of in all aspects of business operations…
“Information is, above all, a principle of economy. The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information leads to an information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.”
- Peter Drucker (1909-2005)
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A business consultant once told me, “I steal only from the best.”
“The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?”
- Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)
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When Anita Sharpe asked Horst Rechelbacher in a recent interview in Motto magazine, “What were the smartest things you did when building Aveda? Rechelbacher answered:
“No. 1 was staying true to the mission and hiring environmentalists who didn’t report to anyone but the environment. We hung posters up in the factory that said things like, “reuse, recycle.” This led to a truly clarified action plan; we followed through in sales and marketing and all of our operations – we put in a day care center and put solar ‘panels’ on the roof. Second, we held weekly steering committee meetings where leaders reported on the progress they were making. The environmentalists could cancel projects if they were not environmentally sound. And third, you always need to go outside and get a second opinion on how you are doing. Once you get on top of the mountain, you get used to the view. You don’t see your own mountain.”
- Horst Rechelbacher (Born 1941)
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