"Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives."

-- Jack Ma

#Outcomes Quotes #Employee Quotes

“I would like to visit the factory that makes train horns, and ask them how they are able to arrive at that chord of eternal mournfulness. Is it deliberately sad? Are the horns saying, Be careful, stay away from this train or it will run you over and then people will grieve, and their grief will be as the inconsolable wail of this horn through the night? The out-of-tuneness of the triad is part of its beauty.”

Source : Nicholson Baker (2007). “Vintage Baker”, p.181, Vintage
“The hardest part has been maintaining a small head and remaining down to earth. So many people try to make you more than you are.”
“I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit.”

Source : "Paul Lambert to have crisis talks with Aston Villa owner, Randy Lerner" by Stuart James, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2014.
“The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature”
“Between being 'right' and being kind, I know which way I vote.”
“It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be: educators, activists, biologists, geologists, writers, farmers, ranchers, and bureaucrats - and admit we are lovers, engaged in an erotics of place. Loving the land. Honoring its mysteries. Acknowledging, embracing the spirit of place - there is nothing more legitimate and there is nothing more true. That is why we are here. That is why we do what we do. There is nothing intellectual about it. We love the land. It is a primal affair.”

Source : Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “An Unspoken Hunger”, p.77, Vintage
“I started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place - I like the people and the environment.”
“We discussed all of this before Anthony decided to run for mayor, so really what I want to say is I love him, I have forgiven him, I believe in him, and as we have said from the beginning, we are moving forward.”

Source : "Gutfeld: High status men no longer held to high standards?". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. July 24, 2013.

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