Dave Ulrich Quotes
When leaders behave consistently with the expectations of customers, they are doing things inside their organization that deliver value outside.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.
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I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to have a lot of camaraderie, and when you're constantly compared to someone else, it kind of damages that camaraderie, but I think this is a great trend. I'm honored to be a part of it in many ways.
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I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.
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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
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I love twins stories.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.
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I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
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There's just no quiet in Vegas.
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I can't think of anything that's as exciting as I'm sure this mission will be, and actually being in space. But, we did some training as a crew together.
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When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history.
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I've had some pretty good arguments with people, but I've never regretted it. I've had people come up where it's all emotion and no fact. That's always sad.
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Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
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The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.
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I've always felt like a designer of lifestyle that has a certain spirit and bohemian quality.
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The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.
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There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact.
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The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial 'nose for the new look.' But nobody, it seems, has the guts or the brains to blow the necessary whistle and holler, 'Hold on guys! What the hell is this ugly bit of business?
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The ability to have influence and create change and drive the strategy of an organization is really what excites me.
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When leaders behave consistently with the expectations of customers, they are doing things inside their organization that deliver value outside.
