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I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.


Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

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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