Gary Hamel Quotes
Over time, a successful company will acquire much in the way of resources and momentum, and these things often insulate it from reality once it has stopped being successful.
Quotes to Explore
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
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My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.
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This view of the infinite, which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences, I know for sure that I shall not be the last!
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My family is usually the first guinea pigs to try out my new recipes.
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I think the place to start is to recognize the individual's quality of incompleteness, of being an unfinished product. The vestiges of the past are brought into the present in one's consciousness, and a continual labor is necessary to eradicate them.
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Over time, a successful company will acquire much in the way of resources and momentum, and these things often insulate it from reality once it has stopped being successful.
