The SMART cycle, by Alison Wood

 
“Stop that project IMMEDIATELY. I want you to start this brand new one. You have TWO WEEKS to prepare, plan and execute a marketing campaign for this project. I want the world to know about it within these two weeks and you MUST generate 50 leads in this time. Every week there-after you MUST generate 20 new leads. Make sure you DO NOT fall behind on your OTHER 10 PROJECTS. - BEGIN, NOW.”

Ray Charles on Commitment

Do it right or don't do it at all.

In an interview for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel (1998). Ray Charles (1930–2004) was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles.

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Gustave Flaubert on Creativity

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

In a letter to Gertrude Tennant (1876). Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style.

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INXS on Leadership

We all have wings but some of us don't know why.

From the track "Never Tear Us Apart" included in the album "Kick" (1987). INXS (1977-) are an Australian rock band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in Sydney.

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Samuel Beckett on Failure

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

As quoted in "Criminal Minds" (2005). Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in France for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French.

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