Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing politics and soft-soaping their bosses. Boards don't like tough, abrasive guys.


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I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
CARL SANDBURG
Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
CARL SANDBURG
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
CARL SANDBURG
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
CARL SANDBURG
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
CARL SANDBURG
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awak...
CARL SANDBURG
I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of...
CARL SANDBURG
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
CARL SANDBURG
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
CARL SANDBURG
If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than &#...
CARL SAFINA
Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whethe...
CARL SAFINA
When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy ...
CARL SAFINA
As a teenage fisherman, I watched and followed terns to find fish. Later, I studied terns for my Ph....
CARL SAFINA
Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually ...
CARL SAFINA
BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have ...
CARL SAFINA
From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being ...
CARL SAFINA
Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and...
CARL SAFINA
If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you&...
CARL SAFINA
If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn'...
CARL SAFINA
With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
CARL ROGERS
The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that mu...
CARL ROGERS
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
CARL ROGERS
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
CARL ROGERS
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this p...
CARL ROGERS
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, wi...
CARL ROGERS
If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.
CARL REINER
I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't...
CARL REINER
Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
CARL REINER
A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a ...
CARL REINER
Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
CARL REINER
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
CARL REINER
I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
CARL REINER
It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
CARL REINER
At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I tho...
CARL RAKOSI
Friends are not made, but recognized.
CARL RAKOSI