"In America, what makes us so successful is the innovation, the competition, the focus on merit."

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Source : "Condoleezza Rice: Education Could Be 'Greatest National Security Challenge'". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. March 19, 2012.

Joel Klein

#Successful Quotes #America Quotes #Focus Quotes

“Love is the glue that holds the world together.”
“Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.”
“Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.”
“Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dangerous than letting old farts sit in the sun. They might be thinking. Same thing with kids. Keep 'em busy or they might start thinking.”
“Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.”
“The 'Cercle et Carré' group owes its existence to my encounter with the Uruguayan painter Torrès-Gracia in 1929... However difficult our relationship, his obstinacy matching my patience, this unholy team of fire and water was bound to produce something. Towards the end of the year, after consulting sundry artists, including Arp, Mondrian, and Van Doesburg, we drew up the program for a new group and launched a magazine which was be called 'Cercle et Carré'.”
“You feel the camaraderie that you're all driving around in vans, you know, engaged in musical enterprise. It's pretty much the same for everybody except for the 40 minutes that you're on the stage. Other than that, I do feel like we're off on our own path. It's sort of exciting.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.”

Source : Henry Cloud (2013). “Boundaries for Leaders: Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously in Charge”, p.12, Harper Collins

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