"My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it."

-- George Washington Carver

#Work Quotes #Men Quotes #Size Quotes

“When you are incubating new ideas, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is very good advice. But when you are seeking to transform your enterprise's portfolio by scaling a fledgling business to material size - say ten percent of total enterprise revenue - then it is imperative that you make that the singular focus of everyone in the enterprise for the two to three year period it is likely to require to reach its tipping point. Expecting to do two such scaling efforts in parallel is simply folly, yet that is what the "eggs/basket" idea is often used to justify.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“I think it's important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.”
“Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie....”
“Drugs are delusive; they do not adjust anything.”
“I have no sense of humor about losing”
“You know, my mother had a rule which was 'people are just people.”

Source : "Lynne Cheney On The VP, Gays And Her Book". "Sunday Morning" with Rita Braver, www.cbsnews.com. October 5, 2007.
“While there's no 'I' in team, there's also no 'you', okay? So back off.”
“Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.”

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