"I learned how to be a learner. When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give direction to others. I'm in this job because I'm better and smarter.' I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them."

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Source : "Mulcahy traces steps of Xerox's comeback". Interview with Kevin Maney, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 21, 2006.

Anne M. Mulcahy

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“A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.”
“They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here right now, none.”
“I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition.”
“Later as the day cools and they have gone in, the cry of the corncrake will carry across those same fields and over the lake to the blue-hazed mountain, such a lonely evening sound to it, like the lonely evening sound of the mothers, saying it is not our fault that we weep so, it is nature's fault that makes us first full, then empty.”
“Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy.”
“Make the most of the Indian Hemp Seed and sow it everywhere.”
“The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since World War II?”
“When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.”

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