"There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different."

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Source : Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (1941). “Adventures of a White-Collar Man”

Alfred P. Sloan

#Courage Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.”
“My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.”
“As a woman who works in a male-dominated business - Hollywood, definitely, being one of them - I instinctually knew what that is like. You have to be strong and take care of yourself.”
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
“Chickens are cheerless birds, I advise you to keep geese which can be taught to follow like dogs, one needs all the companionship one can get in these days.”
“Find people who believe the world will be better when your company succeeds. That's an incentive that money can never buy.”

Source : "How to Hire Extraordinary People" by Leah Busque, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2012.
“The graphics elevator lurched upwards again. This time the new dimension is multimedia, which means adding sound and fury to the smoke and mirrors.”
“It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care”

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