"When we spoke about workplaces in 1972 we mainly were referring to old-line manufacturing firms, on the one hand, and Main St. shops and restaurants, on the other. Both of those categories are now insignificant in terms of employment. Today, the economy is dominated by the rapidly growing Low-Cost Operators - national discount and mall chain stores, fast food franchises and supermarkets - which offer employees low salaries, few benefits and little training."

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Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. 2008.

James O'Toole

#Training Quotes #Today Quotes #Workplace Quotes

“But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care”
“What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.”

Source : Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.12, University of Chicago Press
“Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.”

Source : Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.148, Simon and Schuster
“Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.”
“Autumn resumes the land, ruffles the woods with smoky wings, entangles them.”

Source : Geoffrey Hill (2000). “New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future.”
“The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth.”
“It was going to be a long, dark night but not quite as dark as it was in the abyss of his heart where there was nothing but hollowness, yet it felt heavy, almost as if someone still resided there.”

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