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Quote: Amelia Barr

“Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.” – Amelia Bar

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Quote: George Chapman

“Ignorance is the mother of admiration.” – George Chapman

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Quote: Jim Rohn

Quote: Jim Rohn

“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn

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Quote: Enrico Fermi

Quote: Enrico Fermi

“Ignorance is never better than knowledge.” – Enrico Fermi

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Quote: Jack Welch

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” – Jack Welch

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Quote: Friedrich Nietzsche

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It’s about one life influencing another” – John C. Maxwell

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Quote: Leo Buscaglia

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” – Leo Buscaglia

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Quote: Robert H. Goddard

“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.” – Robert H. Goddard

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Quote: Charles Kettering

“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.” – Charles Kettering

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Quote: Jeff Bezos

Quote: Jeff Bezos

“The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?'” – Jeff Bezos

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Quote: Mark Twain

Quote: Mark Twain

“A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.” – Mark Twain

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Quote: Walter Lippmann

“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.” – Walter Lippmann

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Quote: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote: Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Quote: Henry Ford

Quote: Henry Ford

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

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Quote: Benjamin Franklin

Quote: Benjamin Franklin

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin

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Quote: Oscar Wilde

Quote: Oscar Wilde

“Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.” – Oscar Wilde

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Quote: Matthew Prior

“Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.” – Matthew Prior

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Your due diligence is most likely wrong

Your due diligence is most likely wrong

As many as 70 – 90% of deals fail to create value for acquirers. The majority of these deals were the subject of commercial or strategic due diligences (DDs). Many DDs are rubber stamps – designed to motivate an investment to shareholders. Yet the requirements for a value-adding DD go beyond this.

Strategic due diligence must test investees against uncertainty via a variety of methods that include scenarios, probabilised forecasts and stress tests to ensure that investees are value accretive.

Firms that invest during downturns outperform those who don’t. DDs undertaken during downturns have a particularly difficult task – how to assess the future prospects of an investee when the future is so uncertain.

There is clearly an integrated approach to successful due diligence – despite the challenges posed by uncertainty.

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Quote: Zig Ziglar

Quote: Zig Ziglar

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” –  Zig Ziglar

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