Dave Dombrowski famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't think you ever replace David Ortiz with what he brings to an organization or to a community.
-- Dave Dombrowski

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We're still in this position where we haven't made a lot of decisions yet.
-- Dave Dombrowski

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David Ortiz is an icon. He is one of a kind. But we'll do our best job to replace the offensive aspect, however we can.
-- Dave Dombrowski

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Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking images and expectations, and in establishing specific desires and objectives determines the direction an organization takes. The net result of this influence is to change the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary. In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions.
The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.
I want everyone to keep the property that he has acquired for himself according to the principle:benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual. But the state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property.
What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

Dave Dombrowski famous quotes

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