Bernard Tapie Quotes

100 Bernard Tapie Quotes

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Life is a promise of adventure, often extraordinary, never impossible.
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I learned that a boss doesn’t just give orders, but also, and most importantly, sets an example.
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Being a little more than the others each time leads… in the final analysis, to being totally different from others.
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Each day is a lesson in courage.
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Those who are absent or remain silent are always wrong.
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To assure successful promotion, you have to be present, daily, in order to create it.
Bernard Tapie

The boundary between the impossible and the extra-ordinary is extremely fine…
Bernard Tapie

Passion and fantasy can certainly result in excess…
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Always and everywhere you have to dare.
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He or she has to know how to make others better, and show them what to do.
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‘Mektoub’ of the Orientals, was above all a superb and terrible mechanism of resignation.
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I suddenly discovered myself.
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I had caught a glimpse of my limited possibilities, but I was going to work to enlarge my universe to its utmost and started researching its limits, which I knew were greater than I imagined.
Bernard Tapie

I was firmly decided not to fall into the trap of passivity when, observing others clipped and gagged, I suddenly discovered myself.
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Each time I met with failure, I analysed it…
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In business, like in love, like in sport, you cannot leave any detail out on the pretext that it’s not important.
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Doubt carries feelings of guilt along with it…
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The pessimism of intelligence, the optimism of action. That could be my motto.
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Doubt carries feelings of guilt along with it, which in turn engender resignation and discouragement.
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My formula: dream, risk and humour.
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Failure – especially if experienced early enough – serves to build the warrior.
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Rumours of the setbacks that anyone who takes risks is sure to encounter can too quickly weigh heavily on the shoulders of an entrepreneur…
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I reserve the right to fail as fundamental; it allows for clear-headed people, with resilient souls to rebound and go farther than they ordinarily would.
Bernard Tapie

The navigator who knows that a line connects his raft to the dock will be less afraid than the one who floats helplessly on the currents.
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Those who worry about the future and splash about anxiously have lost their point of reference: notably the family, friends, and solidarity with their peers.
Bernard Tapie

There’s nothing more frustrating than seeing something that doesn’t work and having to explain it to a hard-headed boss who you know won’t listen anyway.
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The best way to prove my predictions correct was to carry them out…
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I decided that the best way to prove my predictions correct was to carry them out on my own…
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Petty rulers hate bearers of bad tidings, or those whose thinking goes against the grain…
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You only catch the game by knowing its habits…
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You have to ceaselessly eradicate your weaknesses, which means your tendency to let yourself be taken in by the habits of ordinary men.
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It is easy to defeat a person if you know his habits.
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The feeling of injustice can give a person incredible force.
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I never wanted revenge on my adversaries; I just ignored them.
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I absolutely had to prove that I was not what they thought I was, what they tried to force me to be…
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It’s through… rebellion against the limits that others want to impose on you that you overtake them…
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Turning failure into indestructible powerful success…
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I want the team around me to be as responsible as I am, as motivated, as united in controlling our destiny as myself…
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I absolutely do not believe in authority imposed by a hierarchy…
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The boss is a salaried worker who has to invest his profits in the business every year.
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