"You can overcome wrong technology. Your people have the initiative, they see the problem, no big deal ... you can't overcome bad culture. You've gotta change whoever is in charge."

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Source : "4 Lessons Every Business Leader Can Learn From Legendary Marine General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis" by Paul Szoldra, www.businessinsider.com. July 18, 2014.

James Mattis

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“The only way to improve is to set yourself harder goals.”
“The soufflÃ© is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both become quite tractable and are great glamorizers for leftover foods.”
“I've definitely been typecast, but I have time to do other things and I was glad to have the chances I did.”
“Niepokalanow is a home like Nazareth. The Father is God the Father, the mother and mistress of the home is the Immaculata, the firstborn son and our brother is Jesus in the most Holy Sacrament of the altar. All the younger brothers try to imitate the elder Brother in love and honor towards God and the Immaculata, our common parents, and from the Immaculata they try to love the divine elder Brother, the ideal of sanctity who deigned to come down from heaven to be incarnated in her and to live with us in the tabernacle...”
“If things come up, we can say, "We're not ready for this, let's move some things around."”
“It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.”
“I don't like things to be overcharged, because otherwise everyone starts getting nervous. I try to be very well organized. When I write the script, everything is already in there, like the decoupage.”

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“If there is one abiding theme in the gym, it's the withering work in the ring. Those not fit do not survive.”

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