C. K. Prahalad Quotes
Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.
Quotes to Explore
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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.
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I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take the schoolbus for two hours. But to drive through America and see the backroads, from Nashville to Memphis, Lovick to New Mexico, was incredible. It was probably the greatest trip of my life.
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Magazines and opinions of you and stuff like that, those will change, but your opinion of yourself does not have to based on what other people say. So I just learned that my inner voice has to be louder than their outside voice.
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Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.
