"The course of business shapes public opinion."

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Source : "The development of executive leadership", by Marvin Bower, Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration. (p. v), 1949.

Marvin Bower

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“As always, I wonder if I'll get through the winter. Then when winter is over, I wonder about the summer. But that's because the system decided which author shall be commercially successful. As I said, the most vicious of them all is The New York Times, because it pretends to be literary and impartial, and it's really this opinionated, myopic, stupid giant of incompetence.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If you want something you have to wait.”
“A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.”
“I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but we are not supposed to need help, even from light. We are supposed to be capable of anything. I like that. Because their might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready.”
“Silences can be as different as sounds.”

Source : Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”
“Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.”

Source : On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue 2
“My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.”
“Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.”

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