"The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor."

-- Marcus Buckingham

#Class Quotes #Long Quotes #Leader Quotes

“I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.”
“I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me.”
“Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.”
“MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.”
“The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of better or worse is the concrete result which it promotes or fails to promote.”

Source : "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking. Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 35, p. 76, 1926.
“...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and waitresses calling you 'hon,' you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitzgerald said it was civilized and gay, rotted and polite. The terms are slightly anachronistic now, but I think he was essentially right.”
“You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.”

Source : Robert Harris (2006). “Imperium”, Hutchinson Radius
“Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.”

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