"America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth."

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Source : "Reengineering the Corporation". Book by James A. Champy and Michael Martin Hammer, p. 30, 1993.

Michael Martin Hammer

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“Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.”

Source : "'King of Devil's Island': Stellan Skarsgård mentors" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. January 5, 2012.
“I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral, and that we should not condone immoral acts. [...] I do not believe that the armed forces are well served by saying through our policies that it's OK to be immoral in any way, not just with regards to homosexual acts.”

Source : "Larry Kramer on the 20th Anniversary of ACT UP, the Government’s Failure to Prevent the AIDS Crisis and the State of Gay Activism Today". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 29, 2007.
“Without their money, the Jews will shrink into mere shadows of themselves, and the nightmare will be over.”
“We had some pretty good at-bats off Carpenter. We just couldn't find any holes. That's the way it goes sometimes. We were able to get some guys on but weren't able to get them in early. We did some little things right, we got some guys on, we got some walks. We take it one batter at a time and everybody tries to stay within their own limitations. We did that, we just didn't get the big hit to get them in.”
“The final test of Afro-American studies will be the extent to which they rid the minds of whites and blacks alike of false learning, and the extent to which they promote for blacks and whites alike a completely rewarding participation in American life.”
“It's not what life does to you but what you do to life that counts.”
“One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.”

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