Patrick Lencioni Quotes
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	With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.   
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	I know firsthand the complexities of leading an enterprise through business and technology transformation. It takes intense focus, a strong drive, and a clearly communicated vision to inspire and take an organization from where they are, to where they need to be - or where they want to go.   
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	I'm starting to find my own style.   
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	Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.   
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	Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.   
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	For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.   
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	Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.   
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	There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.   
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	Also, I use facial masks diligently. I use at least two a day - one for moisturizing and one for whitening. I think I go through at least 600 sheets of facial masks every year.   
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	But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.   
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	I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!   
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	My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.   
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	It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.   
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	There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.   
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	I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.   
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	The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.   
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	I'm the kind of person, I leave a little space for better.   
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	But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.   
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	Look, that homeless guy is sleeping on my face. New York really is where dreams come true.   
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	I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.   
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	Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.   
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	Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.   
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	Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					