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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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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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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I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.
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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for the rest of the world.
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It's difficult to maintain the six-pack abs. They demand a specific workout and diet plan. Even professional bodybuilders sport six-pack abs on and off.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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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.
