"What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense â€” none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done."

Source : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session”

Hyman Rickover

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“Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.”
“I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.”
“[On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!”
“I see the insurance issue, the coverage of people for healthcare in our country as a huge moral issue. The richest country in the world to have 47 million people without health insurance is ridiculous.”
“The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but with the heritage of equipment accumulated by its forebears.”

Source : Robert L. Heilbroner (2011). “The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers”, p.289, Simon and Schuster
“I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.”
“I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.”
“The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.”

Source : Dorothy Thompson (1957). “The courage to be happy”

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