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		My senior leadership team is half people who have been at GM for a long period of time like me, and others who have joined the company within the last five years from different industries, experiences, and countries. You have a better picture of the world. The diversity of thought is where you can make better business decisions.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Mary Barra 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Aaron Brown 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Warren Buffett 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gary Sheffield 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Saffron Aldridge 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Barbara Ehrenreich 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Dale Carnegie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Victor LaValle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The Internet is the Viagra of big business. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jack Welch 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Aaron Schock 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Warren Buffett 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Malcolm Gladwell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ralph Fiennes 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I like that the pitcher hits. I think that my feeling is that everybody should play a position. In order to hit, you have to play a position. That's just my view of it. I feel that's more baseball, and the games are managed different. I enjoy the National League, how it's played. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jacob deGrom 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jonathan Krohn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My senior leadership team is half people who have been at GM for a long period of time like me, and others who have joined the company within the last five years from different industries, experiences, and countries. You have a better picture of the world. The diversity of thought is where you can make better business decisions. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Mary Barra