James Surowiecki Quotes
Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar.
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I'm moving forward to do the best.
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I used to be a night owl. I no longer am a night owl.
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It's all about racing on the track.
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I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.
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I will go to my grave being known as Marge Gunderson. It'll be on my gravestone if I have one. I don't mind that, because it was a great character.
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Touch is more important than arm strength. You want to really allow the receiver to run underneath the throw. It'll give you a little margin for error if you undershoot it a bit.
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Everybody has a role or part to play; if somebody fits the bill, that is what matters.
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I'm an only child, and we're a close family.
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'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it's going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don't do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life.
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Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.
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The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.
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If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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School was just kind of something where it was like, 'Um, I guess I should get my bachelor's.' My mind is always geared towards the practical.
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I don't want to start getting my little violin out, but travelling across the world constantly and staying in hotels is tough, man.
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Terrorism has long been a tactic, but modern technology allows a few small men with outsized rage to murder innocents on a horrific scale.
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The solution to all this is not criminalization but resocialization.
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The armored cars of dreams contrived to let us doso many a dangerous thing.
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To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.
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When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.
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I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.
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The most important thing is to stay positive.
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Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar.
