Harold S. Geneen Quotes
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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North Carolina has been so great because nobody asks me about work.
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As Christopher Marlowe’s Faust learned the hard way, wishing for a moment of bliss to say 'the same' indefinitely is guaranteed to procure indefinite commitment to hell instead of indefinite happiness. … A state of rest would not be a state of happiness but of boredom.
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You sign your life away, basically, when you sign a record deal, and if you have a platinum album, then you go back in and renegotiate.
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I have played cricket on my own terms.
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It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
