James McNerney famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I start with peoples growth, my own growth included. I dont start with the companys strategy or products. I start with peoples growth because I believe that if the people who are running and participating in a company grow, then the companys growth will in many respects take care of itself.
-- James McNerney

#Running #Believe #People
Leadership development is about helping people grow, and if I can get people as individuals growing, then I've got a company that grows.
-- James McNerney

#People #Development #Growing
These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon.
-- James McNerney

#Negative #Tough #Unusual
I was lucky to have a great dad.
-- James McNerney

#Dad #Lucky #Great Dad

The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in Love') with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep -- not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.
Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish he would have left at least one. Saint Patrick made a name for himself by running the snakes out of Ireland, leaving the place vulnerable to rodent infestation. This business of making saints out of men who exterminate their fellow creatures has got to stop. All I'm saying is, it's starting to get a little lonely up here at the top of the food chain.
Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you to others. Collaborate with geniuses. Send them your spells. Look carefully at theirs. What could you do together? Combination is creation.
I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

James McNerney famous quotes

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