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The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that 'business' actually embraces - in one way or another - most Americans.


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NATE POWELL I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carr...
NATE POWELL The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', &#...
NATE POWELL As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between...
NATE POWELL My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the undergr...
NATE POWELL The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot ...
NATE POWELL I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, w...
COLIN POWELL In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for...
LUCY POWELL The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straig...
DAWN POWELL No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far...
EDGAR POWELL I want everybody to be scared to death of us. I don't say that in a bellicose way. I say that in a w...
COLIN POWELL The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
JOHN POWELL The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.
ENOCH POWELL The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have...
COLIN POWELL Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vi...
COLIN POWELL We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this count...
COLIN POWELL Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it...
COLIN POWELL Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your...
COLIN POWELL It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
COLIN POWELL Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
COLIN POWELL Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard...
COLIN POWELL In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.
POWELL CLAYTON Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
ANTHONY POWELL The BBG may want to start numerous new broadcast services, or revive VOA (Voice of America) services...
ADAM POWELL Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.
ADAM POWELL In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.
ADAM POWELL Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
ADAM POWELL Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, th...
ADAM POWELL