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Compensation needs to be predominately performance-driven. If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars.


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EUGENE V. DEBS There is always a double meaning in life...
NADEEM V ABDU How is the Empire?
KING GEORGE V It's a dirty way to fight, but I'm late for lunch."
- Valek to Yelena
MARIA V. SNYDER Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just ...
JENNIFER V. CLANCY The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
V. S. PRITCHETT There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. LUCAS One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
E. V. LUCAS Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling o...
ANDREW V. MADSON Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage an...
JAMES V. FORRESTAL The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
V. S. PRITCHETT You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against ...
E. V. COOKE Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps ...
HAROLD V MELCHERT In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
V. S. PRITCHETT Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.
E. V. COOKE Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS