"Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it's about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first."

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Source : "Avon CEO Andrea Jung's advice: Reinvent yourself". ABC NEWS interview, abcnews.go.com. June 14, 2009.

Andrea Jung

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Priorities Quotes

“I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's not until I get into it that I realize what I've thrown myself into, and then I will do anything not to humiliate myself. And that, I think, is the secret to my success.”
“I don't like to play favorites, and I do try to spread the ball around. But there's an old rule: You throw to the guys who get open in practice.”
“Sex is a game, a weapon, a toy, a joy, a trance, an enlightenment, a loss, a hope.”
“The business end of business has never interested me.”
“Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed; and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.”
“There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.”
“When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well heâ€™ll hide, or watery hole / And he will eat your mortal soul / so if thou seest the man so thin / pray you donâ€™t see him again / for he is not from world we know / he cometh from far down below / on his bed of dirt from grave / from his dank and silent cave / he watches you yet has no sight / he taketh you away at night”

Source : Jack Goldstein (2012). “Slenderman, Slenderman - And Other Terrifying Tales”, p.20, Andrews UK Limited
“I just didn't have no edge for baseball. Once special coach Tony Oliva and former Twins coach Al Newman told me what happened, I couldn't function.”

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