"A happy soul is everything to a man. It is the strong engine of the physical body, it is the inspiration of the mind." Tomáš Baťa
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The perfect guide to a meaningful life and a prosperous, healthy society invented.
Everybody's responsibility for everything is nobody's responsibility for nothing - Let's do the most insignificant thing, but let's do it the best in the world - Don't look for the easy way. So many people are already looking for them that you can't get anywhere by taking them - Relationships are never to blame for anything. It's always the people who are to blame - We can give knowledge to others, but we must redeem our experience with our own sweat, our own calluses - It's a long road through the rules. Short and hearty through examples - Finding the right balance between caution and courage is the highest art - No business will grow to greatness unless it invents a way to turn hopefuls into directors - Our experience so far teaches us, that it's harder to teach people to think for themselves than it is to teach them to listen - No one will be hired on principle who wants to work only in an office, but no one who wants to remain a worker and has no higher goals - Do you want to be the leader of the work of many co-workers? If you want to build a plant with them, build yourself first - Danger? Most people die in bed when they stop moving. If you stop moving, you're dead. And if you slow down, you're half dead. The world was, is and always will be dangerous. Life is movement. Immobility is death.
There are men who have been overcome neither by failure nor by enemies, but who have succumbed to success. Only constant self-control builds character. Let us not fear men, but ourselves.
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