Often, M.B.A.s will parachute around from one company or industry to another, without really understanding what's behind it.


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One fool at least in every married couple.
HENRY FIELDING
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
HENRY FORD
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for ...
HENRY FORD
If you think you can do it, or you think you can't do it, You are right.
HENRY FORD
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - int...
HENRY FORD
It is in the midst of disasters that bold men grow bolder.
HENRY IV
Law is king of all.
HENRY ALFORD
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can ...
HENRY FUSELI
He had dropped upon a seat halfway down the nave and, again in the museum mood, was trying with head...
HENRY JAMES
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
HENRY FIELDING
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- ...
HENRY FIELDING
Republic of letters.
HENRY FIELDING
The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot.
HENRY FIELDING
Handsome is that handsome does.
HENRY FIELDING
But me no buts.
HENRY FIELDING
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather...
HENRY FIELDING
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
HENRY FOSDICK
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own bu...
HENRY FORD
a revenue-neutral proposal has an uphill struggle.
AARON HENRY
More and more people are going without coverage or with less coverage, and that trend looks like it'...
AARON HENRY
The Hail Mary portion is the wholesale reform of Medicare. The idea . . . has technical problems to ...
AARON HENRY
Bush's program has two components, one of which is real and immediate. The other, in football, would...
AARON HENRY
From a financial standpoint, it's meaningless. People can buy savings bonds now,
AARON HENRY
They're getting paid more, too,
AARON HENRY
if we don't protect them, we're not going to protect this country.
AARON HENRY
I'm hoping. I've tried to carry myself that way because the struggle was much more than just breakin...
AARON HENRY
The past few years you could see something just wasn't adding up,
AARON HENRY
There has been a reevaluation of our slave philosophy that permitted us to be satisfied with the lef...
AARON HENRY
When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. Wh...
HENRY TWELLS
If we want to boost border security, we have to help law enforcement agencies beef up their resource...
HENRY CUELLAR
Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?
HENRY MILLER
Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to ...
HENRY MILLER
A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It o...
HENRY MILLER