"I always said to the directors that the minute a player becomes more powerful than the manager of Manchester United, it's not Manchester United. You have lost control of the whole club. So I always made sure that I was in control. They always knew who the manager was."

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Source : Interview with Charlie Rose, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. March 10, 2013.

Alex Ferguson

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“The public psychology of going into debt for gain passes through several more or less distinct phases: (a) the lure of big prospective dividends or gains in income in the remote future; (b) the hope of selling at a profit, and realizing a capital gain in the immediate future; (c) the vogue of reckless promotions, taking advantage of the habituation of the public to great expectations; (d) the development of downright fraud, imposing on a public which had grown credulous and gullible.”
“As you get older, you like to think you get better because you're learning more.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.”
“These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat.But they have failed; our country is strong.”
“We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists”
“Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.”

Source : Nathalie Sarraute (1990). “The age of suspicion: essays on the novel”, George Braziller
“I can understand why people would want to stay on the road because you create your own bubble. You almost don't live in the real world. Just to have the things that are with you is fine.”
“The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.”

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