Richard Kinder Quotes
A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.
Richard Kinder
Quotes to Explore
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We need to think about how we teach working-class children about not just hard skills, like reading and mathematics, but also soft skills, like conflict resolution and financial management.
J. D. Vance
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I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
Jack Gleeson
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Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.
Adam Grant
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Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
J. August Richards
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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
Harold S. Geneen
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We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.
Carl Honore
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When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.
Patrick Collison
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A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.
Alexander David Turner
Arctic Monkeys
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I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
Park Chan-wook
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Wonder, Carlyle declared, is the beginning of philosophy. It is not wonder, but rather the social enthusiasm which revolts from the sordidness of mean streets and the joylessness of withered lives, that is the beginning of economic science. Here, if in no other field, Comte's great phrase holds good: "It is for the heart to suggest our problems; it is for the intellect to solve them.... The only position for which the intellect is primarily adapted is to be the servant of the social sympathies.
Arthur Cecil Pigou
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A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.
Richard Kinder
