Gary Hamel Quotes

Only after Southwest Airlines became the most profitable airline in America did United and American challenge their long-held assumptions about how to compete. At worst, laggards follow the path of greatest familiarity. Challengers, on the other hand, follow the path of greatest opportunity, wherever it leads.

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Children
  • American
  • Best

• To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Long
  • Success
  • Leadership

• The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Long
  • History
  • Feeling

• I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Time
  • Good
  • America

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Important
  • Long
  • Done

• Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• There's nothing more American than movies.

  

  Adam McKay
  • American
  • Movies
  • Nothing

• I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Up
  • Law
  • Years

• Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Long
  • American
  • Hand

• As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Long
  • Space
  • Go

• I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Long
  • Political
  • Science

• My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Great
  • American
  • Revolution

• And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • American
  • Decisions

• I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Book
  • Think
  • Challenge

• An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.

  

  Ken Stott
  • Power
  • Simple

• I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.

  

  Ben Lindsey
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Respect

• Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • May
  • Noses

• If you give the future all your attention, the present will pass you by.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Future
  • Attention
  • Present

• Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Death
  • Child

• Only after Southwest Airlines became the most profitable airline in America did United and American challenge their long-held assumptions about how to compete. At worst, laggards follow the path of greatest familiarity. Challengers, on the other hand, follow the path of greatest opportunity, wherever it leads.

  

  Gary Hamel
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  • American
  • America