Peter Drucker Quotes
Growth as a goal, to repeat, is delusion. William James, the American philosopher, talked of the 'bitch goddess success.' A philosopher of business today might well talk of the 'bitch goddess growth.'Peter Drucker
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
Barkhad Abdi -
I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
Patrick Dempsey -
I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
Carlos Santana Santana -
If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
Daniel Bryan -
If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
Abraham Polonsky -
My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
Harriet Walter
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
Kate Mulgrew -
The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
D. B. Sweeney -
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
Orson Welles -
When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
Ian Mckellen
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
Jack White The White Stripes -
Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
Maeve Binchy -
The first time I ever got paid to play was 1/18/99, Fire Hall in Bordentown, New Jersey. Played first on the bill - we got paid $20!
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
Aberjhani -
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe -
I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.
Kary Mullis
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I'll tell you God's truth: I think that this script that Neil has written - 'Odd Couple Two,' I think, is superior to the original one - to the first one.
Jack Lemmon -
People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
Politics is just show business for ugly people.
Jay Leno -
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
Harvey S. Firestone -
It's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get lazy. It's easy to get too self-centric, like, 'Why me? What about my needs?' It has nothing to do with that. But you see, you are the thing you are selling whether you are a director or an actor in this business. It's very tough. The town doesn't realize that its greatest resource is its people.
Bill Paxton -
Growth as a goal, to repeat, is delusion. William James, the American philosopher, talked of the 'bitch goddess success.' A philosopher of business today might well talk of the 'bitch goddess growth.'
Peter Drucker