Juanita M. Kreps famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man
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The difference between the ground and the heights you achieve.
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One of the mistakes women have made is to romanticize life in the rose-covered cottage and then, discovering their error, proceed to romanticize life in the working world.
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... I think we should never underestimate the power of women's threats. If you have ever faced an angry group of women, you know that it makes one very nervous. How can we get groups of women to act in such ways as to make corporations nervous? I should like us to use this method sparingly; but it can be used.
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... between government, business, and the public, there is a triangular community of interest. Clearly, it is in business' interest to shape its behavior to prevailing public values; it is more efficient to do so than not to do so. It is also clear that government is the high-cost alternative through which public values are imposed on corporations that do not accurately perceive these values.
-- Juanita M. Kreps
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All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
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Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.
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Achievement has no color
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The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
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La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.
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To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
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Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.
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Only mediocre ideas can be tested.
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