"Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things."

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Source : Mortimer Levitt, Theodore Levitt (1998). “Thinking About Management”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

Theodore Levitt

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“Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.”
“No matter what others say or do, even if the wicked succeed, do not be troubled: commit everything to God and put your trust in him.”
“Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79 episodes of the series; there were 55 different writers. I was only one of them.”
“Trust has two dimensions: competence and integrity. We will forgive mistakes of competence. Mistakes of integrity are harder to overcome.”
“You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.”
“The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.”
“For every album, I look at where I'm at in my career and think of a title that kind of represents that. And for me, 'Night Train' was kind of a metaphor for where things have gone, from being on one bus with 12 other guys, pulling a trailer my first few years on the road, to now. We're out here with six or seven buses and eight or nine semis.”
“Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.”

Source : "Human Memory: Why Bad Memories Stick" by David Perlmutter, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2011.

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