“Yes, a deep lesson from the postage stamp. It attaches itself to a moveable material, the envelope and gets going. A good relationship keeps you going forward; a bad one keeps you static. Attach yourself to someone who is also going forward and you will also get there.”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“You have to direct change; if you don't do so, change will direct you. Guess... the direction change will offer you is not a comfortable one. But the direction you can offer change will be the most comfortable. Go, make a change now!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“To leaders, one trusted friend is better than ten well known betrayers”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“When searching for help, look for the one that will push, not the one that will pull! Your machinery needs a pusher; just avoid every puller and you’ll keep going forward!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Spread your courtesy across the door posts of everyone you know, but reserve your intimacy with the little trustworthy friends who are going where you are going. Get it simply: wide courtesy, narrow intimacy!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“A man of vision cannot question his potentials. He does not doubt his capabilities. He keeps going because he had seen himself gone already in his visions.”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Fire false friends. They are in to fast-forward your fall and failure.”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“If you think of evil things, you are likely to do evil things and that will never pay you a pesewa. Think of good things and do good always!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“It's excellence in leadership when everyone wants to manufacture a black shoe and you manufacture a designer black shoe with gold medal on top. Do something new; do something better!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Yesterday was the last day on the calender of the past. Tomorrow will be the first day on the calender of the future. Today is both the first and the last day of the present. Use it well.”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Stop complaining and do something... Shut up! Rise up! Grow up! And show up! See you at the top!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Come out with your unique signal and don’t always be compelled to go the common way. That is called innovation.”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Trial and error” is not bad, but not the best. If you don’t know where the crowd is going, don’t follow it. Get set.”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Obscurity makes success undefined because success is crowned by sharing what you have with people who need it; you can't share if you keep hiding!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Tradition is the prison where change is detained... To make a change, you need to agree that you are not going with the statement "this is how we do it"! Yes, that was how it was done, but what next? Agree to change!”
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Israelmore Ayivor
