Gary Hamel Quotes
To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.
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With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.
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To be able to sit back and enjoy the game, sit back and watch guys that you know played and you might have worked with it or you personally know, it's cool; it's awesome to sit back and say I know that guy because you're more of a fan of that game and that person.
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No Catalan citizen and no Catalan company will leave the E.U. That is evident, and nobody can dispute it.
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.
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I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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During a game, it comes down to your mind - the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Many people say taking penalties is easy, but when you're stood over one, that's not the case. It's in no way easy. The goal really does become a lot smaller.
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It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
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When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.
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If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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Baseball is a team game.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore.
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I think that governments are going to get disrupted by the blockchain. I think in the same way that the Internet forced everyone to evolve, the Blockchain is going to change the game again.
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Edible Arrangements will have to beat back some rivals, including a handful of mom-and-pop vendors and a company in Pennsylvania called Incredibly Edible Delites. And there's always the chance that a deep-pocketed national florist like FTD will decide that pretty produce is profitable and jump into the mix.
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You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
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I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.
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I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
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There's a long relationship between science fiction and the 'novel of ideas,' and I think writers of science fiction are able to draw on that tradition to take risks, to constantly raise the level of their ambition.
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To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.
