"Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team."

-- Fred Wilson

#Senior Quotes #Team Quotes #Boards Quotes

“Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it”

Source : Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado”, p.429, Pan Macmillan
“You only have one trip. You might as well enjoy it.”
“As minister of finance, Mr. Flaherty served his country with dedication and conviction, even as he faced mounting health challenges. As both a man and a politician, I will remember him for his pleasant demeanour and strength of character.”
“Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.”

Source : Kirby Larson (2013). “Hattie Ever After”, p.156, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts us to the point of seeing the futility of resisting reality and the futility of denial.”
“Live your life as if you are writing your Biography.”
“If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.”

Source : Augusta Jane Evans (1860). “Beulah”, p.272
“Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.”

Source : Katherine Neville (2015). “The Eight”, p.176, Open Road Media

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