Doug McMillon Quotes
As a leader during transformation, you have to be out in front — show that you want to learn, be curious, introduce new ideas, ask questions.
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
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As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.
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If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
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I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.
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I am so proud to have the endorsement of a distinguished leader like Glenn Poshard.
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As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.
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And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.
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When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
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Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.
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As a leader of a majority-Muslim nation, I believe Islamic countries must better understand what young people aspire to.
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I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on.
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The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.
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Libertarianism is 'cultish,' say the sophisticates. Of course, there's nothing cultish at all about allegiance to the state, with its flags, its songs, its mass murders, its little children saluting and paying homage to pictures of their dear leaders on the wall, etc.
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Maybe I'm too close to the two Democrats to be against either one. I went to law school with Barack Obama and worked in the Clinton White House, so I have connections and allegiances to both candidates. [...] But I cannot remain silent any longer while my own senator destroys the Democratic Party, and her own reputation, in a desperate and degrading effort to appeal to the lowest common denominator. It's time for Senator Clinton to act like a leader that I know she can be. Hillary Clinton not only needs to defend Barack Obama, she needs to apologize to him.
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What can I learn from this? What will I do next time I'm in this situation?
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As a leader during transformation, you have to be out in front — show that you want to learn, be curious, introduce new ideas, ask questions.
