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I was doing an investigative article on arms trafficking that was taking me through Eastern Europe and the Middle East. And after I had interviewed a helicopter pilot who had been ferrying weapons into Liberia, I realized as I left the restaurant that I was being followed and set up for an ambush.


Peter Landesman

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PETER MARSHALL Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and ...
PETER DAVIES We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
PETER DRUCKER Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
PETER DRUCKER Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we s...
PETER MARSHALL We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the mos...
PETER DRUCKER Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.
PETER DRUCKER The computer is a moron.
PETER DRUCKER As much as we like to think that we are independent-minded, free-willed, autonomous individuals, the...
PETER MCWILLIAMS The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
PETER DRUCKER Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up...
PETER WASTHOLM Common Sense is in medicine the master workman.
PETER LATHAM All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it cont...
PETER CONRAD If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.
PETER GILCREST First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most...
PETER MCWILLIAMS Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see t...
PETER KLINE The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to asp...
PETER MCWILLIAMS When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
PETER DRUCKER Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
PETER DRUCKER If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
PETER LYNCH It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
PETER TOWNSEND A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
PETER USTINOV I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are tau...
PETER USTINOV Decision making is the specific executive task.
PETER DRUCKER Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.
PETER WASTHOLM However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when s...
PETER QUENNELL The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance...
PETER CONRAD