"The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get."

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James C. Collins

#Choices Quotes #Luck Quotes #Critical Quotes

“I detest those who deceive me...”

Source : Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.72, Ballantine Books
“North Korea is creating its own time zone. It's going to push the country's time back a half hour. So it's not bad enough that they don't have food and they're ruled by an insane dictator. Now they have to wait until 8:00 to watch 'Wheel of Fortune.'”
“I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.”
“Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has become a shield of impunity, protecting governments around the world from scrutiny for their human rights abuses.”
“You would not let your kids do whatever they want. So the challenge is to create accountability in a non-mechanistic way. You cannot come in with a clipboard and check off boxes and figure out why something has not been done on schedule.”

Source : Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.
“If you diversify, control your risk, and go with the trend, it just has to work.”
“I want to stay close to the groove of people's individual human stories. I can't see that there's anything more interesting than that. That's just me. That's what I do.”
“A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.”

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