Gary Hamel Quotes
Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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I was a tomboy.
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I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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It's very important for a brand to have an identity through the years, but it's very important as well to evolve because times change so fast.
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Do I enjoy the aggression of English football? No. I like to play football. I like to score goals. I like to do things well.
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As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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I was in character all the time when I was little.
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Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
