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However numerous your products, the company won't succeed unless each of them is treated with concentrated care.

The Supermarketers (1987)
In a global economy the challenges and changes are universal.

In Search of European Excellence (1997)
Total commercial honesty always costs something, but total or partial dishonesty will cost more.

The Supermarketers (1987)
The new model is global in scale, an interdependent network.

Harvard Business Review (1991)
I believe that crisis really tends to help develop the character of an organization.

Fortune (1998)
As large, high-tech corporations around the world reengineer themselves by downsizing and rightsizing, the first casualty is basic research. And with good reason. The uncertainty, the risk-reward ratio, and the sheer expense come at too high a price for a cost-conscious society, which includes belt-tightening managers and nearsighted shareholders.

Wired Magazine (1996)
It's part of my strong feeling for the necessity of constant change, for keeping people a little off balance.

Made in America (1992)
Listen to everyone in your company and figure out ways to get them talking.

Made in America (1992)
Our philosophy is that management's role is simply to get the right people in the right places to do a job, and to encourage them to use their own inventiveness to accomplish the task at hand.

Dun's Business Month (1982)
We learned from everybody else's book and added a few pages of our own.

'The Hot Ticket in Retailing,' New York Times (1984)
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