Saturday, August 15, 2009

Jim Collins: Quote for August 15, 2009

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline - a problem that largely goes away if you have the right people in the first place. Most companies build their bureaucratic rules to manage the small percentage of wrong people on the bus, which in turn drives away the right people on the bus, which then increases the percentage of wrong people on the bus, which increases the need for more bureaucracy to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline, which then further drives the right people away, and so forth.
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Friday, August 14, 2009

Jerry Maguire: Quote for August 14, 2009

SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!
from: Jerry Maguire (1996)
Tom Cruise acted as Jerry Maguire
Cuba Gooding Jr. appears in this clip acting as Rod Tidwell.
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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Elvis Presley: Quote for August 13, 2009

I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song.' So I keep singing a song.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Robert S. McNamara: Quote for August 12, 2009

There were total misunderstandings as a result. They believed that we had simply replaced the French as a colonial power and we were seeking to subject South and North Vietnam to our colonial interests. Which was absolutely absurd. And we, we saw Vietnam as an element of the cold war not what they saw it as: a civil war.
from: The Fog of War (2003)
Robert McNamara was the U. S. Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

John Steinbeck: Quote for August 11, 2009

We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly re-spawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.
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Monday, August 10, 2009

Admiral Hyman Rickover: Quote for August 10, 2009

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
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Sunday, August 9, 2009

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Quote for August 9, 2009

It isn't the big decisions that weigh heavy. Hell, you can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. It's easy to gamble a million lives. What's hard is to see how that can hurt one single person. And if you can't keep that straight, hell, you'll lose your humanity.
Tom Selleck acted as Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Saturday, August 8, 2009

Marcus Aurelius: Quote for August 8, 2009

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid.
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Friday, August 7, 2009

Jennifer Cavalleri: Quote for August 7, 2009

Jennie, I'm sorry!

Don't!   Love means never having to say your sorry.
from: Love Story (1970)
Ali MacGraw acted as Jennifer Cavalleri
Ryan O'Neal appears in this clip acting as Oliver Barrett IV.
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Thursday, August 6, 2009

Ronald Reagan: Quote for August 6, 2009

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Tom Clancy: Quote for August 5, 2009

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Daniel H. Pink: Quote for August 4, 2009

The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind -- creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers. These people -- artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers -- will now reap society's richest rewards and share its greatest joys.
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Monday, August 3, 2009

Ensign Pulver: Quote for August 3, 2009

Yes, who is it?!

Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinkin' palm tree overboard! Now what's all this crud about no movie tonight?
from: Mister Roberts (1955)
Jack Lemmon acted as Ensign Pulver
James Cagney appears in this clip acting as Captain Morton.
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Sunday, August 2, 2009

Mahatma Gandhi: Quote for August 2, 2009

The Roots of Violence:
Wealth without work,
Pleasure without conscience,
Knowledge without character,
Commerce without morality,
Science without humanity,
Worship without sacrifice,
Politics without principles.
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Saturday, August 1, 2009

Umberto Calvini: Quote for August 1, 2009

The real value of a conflict, the true value, is in the debt that it creates. You control the debt, you control everything. You find this upsetting, yes? But this is the very essence of the banking industry, to make us all, whether we be nations or individuals, slaves to debt.
from: The International (2009)
Luca Barbareschi acted as Umberto Calvini
Clive Owen appears in this clip acting as Louis Salinger.
Naomi Watts appears in this clip acting as Eleanor Whitman.
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