Joe Kaeser Quotes

Mediocrity was the dominating element of big conglomerates and, in the new digital age, digitalization goes exactly after mediocrity.

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• Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Food
  • Government
  • Water

• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Learning
  • Dance
  • Stars

• You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • You
  • Never
  • Desperate

• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • High
  • Intelligence
  • Well

• One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • War
  • Military
  • Conflict

• I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Kind
  • Street

• Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Thought
  • Deserve
  • Plans

• I've always dreamed of having a large family.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Family
  • Always
  • Large Family

• Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Life
  • You
  • Walking

• You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Life
  • Page
  • Spark

• Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Everyone
  • Huge
  • Nirvana

• In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Experience
  • Nice
  • Bonus

• In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Never
  • Beauty
  • Something

• By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Women
  • Money
  • Why

• Great," Shane said. "Look i'd rather not be on janitorial duty. I have allergies to cleaners." "And to cleaning," Michael said. "Look who's talking, Didn't the do one of those Animal Planet documentaries about the roaches in your room?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Great
  • Animal
  • Cleaning

• I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• Sure there is a sexy attitude, and when they say, 'Give me a sexy look with your eyes,' you give it to them. It doesn't have to relate to the product. People are just drawn to it.

  

  Lisanne Falk
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Attitude

• I think of being ornate as a Victorian quality, little to do with Shakespeare. But even Dickens wasn't ornate; he wrote with flow and naturalism.

  

  Christopher Plummer
  • Quality

• Mediocrity was the dominating element of big conglomerates and, in the new digital age, digitalization goes exactly after mediocrity.

  

  Joe Kaeser
  • Age