"The most important thing I've learned since becoming CEO is context. It's how your company fits in with the world and how you respond to it."

-- Jeffrey R. Immelt

#Important Quotes #World Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“My first instrument was a little blue ukele.”
“Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?”

Source : Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1993). “The Social Contract ; And, The Discourses”, Everyman's Library
“If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.”

Source : Speech shown in "American Experience" series on PBS, 2000.
“Women and girls have been my passion for my whole life.”

Source : "Kathy Calvin | President/CEO of United Nations Foundation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.
“Change does not fail to occur because of insincerity. The heart patient is not insincere about his wish to keep living, even as he reaches for another cigarette. Change fails to occur because we mean both things. It fails to occur because we are a living contradiction.”

Source : Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey (2013). “Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization”, p.38, Harvard Business Press
“Frankly, earmarking is not the problem. It is a symptom of the problem.”
“Until the content of a belief is made clear, the appeal to accept the belief on faith is beside the point, for one would not know what one has accepted. The request for the meaning of a religious belief is logically prior to the question of accepting that belief on faith or to the question of whether that belief constitutes knowledge.”
“The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.”

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