"If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers."

-- Dee Hock

#Motivation Quotes #Character Quotes #Over You Quotes

“I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.”
“In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.”
“Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment.”
“The first song I wrote and had published was titled "Just As Long As That Someone Is You". It was written in 1959, and recorded in 1965 by Jimmy Ellege. I started writing songs because I wanted something of my own to sing. I, at that time, was not aware that the songs I heard on the radio were not written by the folks singing them. I had always loved poetry, and found it easy to integrate a melody with poetry.”
“If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.”

Source : "60 SECONDS: Ross Kemp". Interview with Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. September 17, 2007.
“The most terrifying thing is sometimes not what we see, but rather what we are forced to imagine.”

Source : Félix J. Palma (2012). “The Map of the Sky: A Novel”, p.294, Simon and Schuster
“You are a world unto yourself just waiting to be formed.”
“It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people.”

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