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“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
Source : "Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence". Interview with Noel Tichy and Ram Charan, hbr.org. September/October 1989.
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“Unfortunately, today's colleges and universities, and especially our business schools, do not offer pragmatic crisis management teachings.”
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“When a father is quick to lose his tempre, his sons are fools.”
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“Don't let regrets about the past or worries about the future rob you of your enjoyment of the present.”
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“Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?”
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“This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan [in decades] ... We will continue to handle it in a state of maximum alert.”
Source : "Kan: Japan on 'maximum alert' over nuke crisis", www.stripes.com. April 7, 2011.
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“I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves”
Source : Speech on Taxes, Liberty, and the Philosophy of Government, delivered 11 August 1924, The White House Grounds, Washington, D.C.
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“Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.”
Source : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan