Mary Barra Quotes
Lyft is focused on the customer - the driver - as GM is. I've talked many times about our goal being, 'How we can put the customer at the center of what we do so we earn customers for life?' It's a very common goal of putting the customer first.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
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We do not take humor seriously enough.
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Dying is a wild night and a new road.
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We need visions of a future in which we have applied our infinite creativity to the task of living on a finite world, where we have embraced our role, become comfortable and proficient as planet-shapers, and learned to use our technological skills to enhance the survival prospects not just of humanity but of all life on Earth.
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Lyft is focused on the customer - the driver - as GM is. I've talked many times about our goal being, 'How we can put the customer at the center of what we do so we earn customers for life?' It's a very common goal of putting the customer first.
