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“The lines that you see below are mostly taken from books I’ve read. These lines serve me as guideposts in life.” –Ed Formoso - Just three key words, "just like basketball".
- Win the heart and the mind falls.
- Basketball in the Philippines is the football in Brazil, Italy, Argentina and most of the world
- We need to popularize the sport, it is the priority.
- Make football a part of the solution.
- Sometimes the only way to win the game is not to play it.
- To change the things that can be changed, accept those that cannot, and have the wisdom to know the difference.
- People want to work for a cause, not just for a living.
- You can only beat your enemy by making him your friend.
- In the marketplace, there is only one uncompromising standard: you either make money or you don't.
- No organization, whether it be for-profit or not-for-profit, can survive with a continuing deficit.
- Because big business loves basketball so much, we should start looking at small and medium size enterprises and help one another grow big.
- Growing together, living together.
- We need to popularize football in the quickest time possible because we are starving.
- Football must be made accessible, enjoyable and entertaining.
- Big businesses love basketball because of the fun and entertainment it delivers.
- A footballer in every family; a fan in every home; a team in every community. Now that's a measurable mission.
- People invest in business because they believe in them. If you are a financier, employer, or customer, the same rule always applies.
- The true spirit of a partnership is mutual interest. The key word being 'mutual'.
- Think less about goods and more about services. How can football be a service?
- Respect the fact that we are all very different. When one expects to see things differently, when we take it as a given that others will do things differently and react differently to the same stimuli, we become more understanding.
- We are a family, a team, a community working to popularize the game in one part of God's World.
- Let's just snuff out the politics and get on with footballing.
- People think as they do because of the stuff they know or don't know.
- Just like any business, commitment and time are essential or your project won't fly.
- Question: "If you were me, trying to sell to you, what would you do?" Answer: "Give me something useful, give me some research, then perhaps I will see you."
- While Mindshare is an answer, Heart Share is the clincher.
- What we need is a turned-on workforce.
- What is your cause? Link the cause with reality and you will solve the problem.
- Man is driven by an essential 'dualism', he needs both to be a part of something and to stick out. He needs at one and the same time to be a conforming member of a winning team and to be a star in his own right.
- Stay on the good side. Do football for good!
- What is harmony? That's commitment working two ways. It is the individual to the organization and the organization to the individual.
- The boundaries of exclusion should be few.
- Recognize prejudice and be courageous to deal with it when it comes.
- A good leader must always focus on the breadwinners of tomorrow.
- A commitment to the future often requires leaders to put their own money at risk.
- Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage a change that is inevitable.
- We should never be frightened by the size of the task because it is people who make the difference.
- Friendship muna.
- One can easily change his life by changing the way he thinks.
- Football = Basketball. Yes, its in the marketing plan.
- The poor will set us free.
- If a decision is good for the majority, just make sure the majority understands why it is good for them.
- Sometimes you need to put your organization 'Under Construction'.
- We should work to make politics the background noise in the political exercise of electing a president for football.
- Basketball draws all its power from being fun to play and entertaining to watch. If we football people don't realize this up to now...we've got a very serious problem.
- Your job is you. Unless you fill yourself up first, you have nothing to give anybody.
- Treat everyone with dignity and worth.
- Growth is not an option. It is a mandate. When growth is not happening, changes must be made.
- Philippine Football Federation = Provincial Football Associations. This is the plan.
- You cannot create other people's lives for them. You cannot think for them, and you cannot force your opinions on others. Let others create the life they want.
- Don't hesitate to ask for help.
- Profit is like health, you need it, and the more the better. But it's not why you exist.
- If you want innovation, don't kill the spirit.
- None of us is really as good as he or she would like to think, but rubbing our noses daily in that reality doesn't do us a bit of good.
- Keep it simple.
- A good try that results in some learning is to be celebrated even when it fails.
- Managers work with people; leaders stir emotion.
- You have to believe in the impossible.
- Our most effective goal is to be the best at certain things.
- Label a man a loser and he'll start acting like one.
- There is importance in beauty as a starting point for a business logic that ensues.
- Overspend on quality, overkill on customer service.
- One starts by 'feeling it' and escaping the tyranny of reason.
- It is much easier to develop a negative argument than to advance a constructive one.
- Respect for the individual.
- Like good parents: care a lot, expect a lot.
- Mind your own business.
- See the 'innocence' side instead of the 'guilty'.
- Ask yourself: will this matter a year from now?
- I've been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
- In the absence of any judgment, everything would be fine.
- Just look beyond behavior.
- Every opinion has a grain of merit. Find it.
- If we all do our part, we'd be a better footballing nation.
- The sooner we accept the inevitable dilemma of not being able to win the approval of everyone we meet, the easier our lives will be.
- Everyone has a job to do and no one should benefit at the expense of another.
- If you focus only on your dreams and visions, you will take all competition out of the equation.
- Profit as a means goal and not as an end goal.
- In people for football and not in football for people.
- Serve the unserved, tap the untapped.
- 100 %-ers are who we need in all departments.
- It's time to make friends.
- Like the USA, we don't have football in our alleys.
- An organization were marketing is not an expense but an investment.
- If you don't live it, then you don't believe it.
- How to do it? Only as you would in God's World!
- If metro manila falls in love with football, the rest of the country will follow.
- Do not turn one against another man's leadership; just turn him on to yours.
- The long term benefits must never be forgotten.
- We need to be an organization where people are glad to show what they can do.
- Think marketing.
- We should be an organization that's going to 'feel good' about what it's doing.
- The Footballing of the Filipino....that's another mission.
- It all begins with the way you treat people.
- We need to find our very own FIFA World Cup.
- We really need to look way beyond the game.
- Different strokes for Different folks.
- For the good of the sponsor.
- Intention is the shortest way to bridge the distance between parties who terribly disagree.
- Living it, believing it, wanting it and Making it work out.
- The absolute marketing cost isn't always the determining factor; the return on investment is.
- Are we employing our resources to the full in useful activity?
- No one wins until we all do.
- When God closes the door, He opens a window.
- Don't judge a book by its cover.
- No amount of money ever got a dictator out...guess what does?
- Forgive. Forget. Forward.
- Something for everyone. There is always enough.
- Social Responsibility Football is the soul cleansing we need.
- A truly Pinoy football revolution can begin today.
- In every job that must be done, there must be an element of fun. Then the job becomes a game and the goals become easier to reach.
- Positivity is the only answer to Negativity.
- We need to work to change 'have to's' to 'want to's'.
- Goals must answer to What, When, Where and How you do what you do.
- Pure Football -- where football is life.
- An earth-friendly federation we must be.
- It's the people-side of the equation and not the peso-side that makes a difference. So keep building relationships.
- Results of leadership are measured beyond the workplace.
- It's more than just the game, its tough business too.
- It shouldn't be difficult to realize that basketball is the competition that's taking away the food from our tables
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