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“I call myself an educator.”
“Every situation can be substantially improved; even the sky is not the limit.”
“If you want people to take action,you must refrain from giving them the answers.”
“I took inspiration from 'Fountainhead,' the way in which Ayn Rand conveyed her political philosophy through an immensely popular novel.”
“Every conflict can be removed.”
“For me, 'educator' is the highest title that exists.”
“As a CEO, you have to take the active action to force most of your resources to stand idle from time to time - or go bankrupt.”
“Every person can reach a full life.”
“To be a good manager, a manager tries to constantly fight to reduce waste.”
“If the system should not need parts now, the worker should not produce because you are just absorbing instead of producing.”
“The problem with a cost reduction strategy is that there is a finite limit.You can only get to zero.”
“We have to have workers that will produce more and will stop work when it is not needed.”
“You need collaboration of its people; it's the only way to improve a company - can you ignore that? You need a win-win for every sub-group, which will ensure exponential growth for a company.”
“Conditions impact the behaviour of people.”
“Almost all decisions based on cost accounting are utterly wrong.”
“Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.”
“Automation is good, so long as you know exactly where to put the machine.”
“Growth becomes less important than stability; we have to give people changes slowly.”
“Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?”
“Every situation, no matter how complex it initially looks, is exceedingly simple.”