Franklin Foer Quotes

I have really no desire to go back into management ever again.

Franklin Foer

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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

Samuel J. Palmisano
- People
- Society
- Control
Life is made up of marble and mud.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Life
- Up
- Mud
I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.

Camille Paglia
- Work
- Book
- Library
I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.

Sam Childers
- People
- Up
- Time
Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

Irene Rosenfeld
- Want
- Control
- Leadership
For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.

Victor LaValle
- Long
- Kids
- Remember