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The Way Of Progress: Gather People Around You Who Are Smarter

Your success in business (or in life for that matter) hinges on your ability to build a team and inspire a team to work together towards a common goal.

Take this advice on team-building in your business from these great men…

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“I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.”

Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist known as the father of modern American shipbuilding

 

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“I’m just a plowhand from Arkansas, but I have learned how to hold a team together. How to lift some men up, how to calm down others, until finally they’ve got one heartbeat together, a team.  There’s just three things I’d ever say: If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That’s all it takes to get people to win football games for you.”

-Bear Bryant, American college football player and longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team

 

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