"You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership."

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Source : "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.

Grace Hopper

#People Quotes #Management Quotes #Overboard Quotes

“To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.”

Source : Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.381, Sheridan House, Inc.
“There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.”
“Donâ€™t try and make me feel better, Alex. I hate you.â€ â€œI hate you, too.”
“There are no super saints, only those that don't quit.”
“I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go.”
“Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.”

Source : Marina Warner, Sophie Herxheimer, Gilbert Adair (1994). “Wonder Tales”, p.3, Oxford University Press on Demand
“I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.”
“Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.”

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