Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
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I am from the Kardashian group. We can take anything.
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I don't have any nicknames.
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Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me.
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I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
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I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
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I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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The vibe of London as a city is captivating. It's both fast-paced and extremely rushed but still has the calmness that would attract any big-city person.
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People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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When you identify with an organization and you want to do stuff but you get this inexplicable 'no' - a lot of people get off the end and think, Well, God must have said no to me. No! The organization just said no to you. Find what it is that you were made to do and get on it! Go do what you were made to do.
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Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
