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.
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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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With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
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Every morning as I begin my work day, my computer presents me with the usual array of garbage: email, Twitter, updates on the state of the nation, updates on the state of the sneakers I just ordered.
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People love me everywhere I go.
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After the first time I got traded - I was in the bullpen warming up for a game in Double A, and I got called back in and got traded - that was probably the, like, most crazy it could be. And once I got traded, the next time it got a little easier, and I got traded the next time - it's just part of it.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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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.
