Jun 30th 2001 Chuck Peck (original source?)
Marketing puts the ball in play; sales puts the ball away.
— Chuck Peck (original source?)
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Archive for June, 2001
Jun 28th 2001 David Halberstam
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
— David Halberstam
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Jun 26th 2001 The Peter Principle
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
- In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties.
- Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
— The Peter Principle
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Jun 24th 2001 B.C. Forbes (1946)
Man was not made for business; business was made for man.
— B.C. Forbes (1946)
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Jun 22nd 2001 Harold Sherman and Al Pollard
Most of us live our lives either in quiet desparation or with inspired purpose.
— Harold Sherman and Al Pollard
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Jun 20th 2001 Marcus Aurelius
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Jun 18th 2001 Stephen Swid
Being rich is having money. Being wealthy is having time.
— Stephen Swid
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Jun 16th 2001 Apius Claudius
Every individual is the architect of his own fortune.
— Apius Claudius
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Jun 14th 2001 Napoleon
The first strategy of war is an armed force that is fully mobilized and consumed with the desire to win. Without that, all other strategies are vain.
— Napoleon
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Jun 12th 2001 Mark Kingwell
Our most basic choice, the one that ground all the others, is this: Do we attend closely to the business of our choices, or do we flee from them, in arrogance, or fear, or boredom — or some combination of all three? That’s the only ultimate purpose or meaning that we can make sense of.
— Mark Kingwell
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