Patrick Lencioni Quotes
I work with CEOs and their executive teams... and very few of these people are really indifferent about their employees or their customers.
Quotes to Explore
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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
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The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
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Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
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I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.
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Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.
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Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
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There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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A president should look for what binds the people together rather than what drives them apart. As soon as you are identified with one side of the political map, you are no longer everybody's president.
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It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.
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My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of the 21st century, and ensure that we work together.
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On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
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However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.
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No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.
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The more time goes by, the more things will happen to you in your life. And the ability to be positive throughout and look for the good in people, look for the good in situations - it's so important.
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I've done a few face palms after things I've said because it's stupid. But if I'm not like that, I won't feel human anymore. I'll just feel like some robot saying what I'm supposed to say. I think that's when people lose it.
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I swing with a lot of torque from non-fiction to fiction, and I really like that place in between.
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No - I'm quite calm inside during the game for most of the time - not 100%, but generally very calm.
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I work with CEOs and their executive teams... and very few of these people are really indifferent about their employees or their customers.
