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You can’t improve what you are not managing, you can’t manage what you are not measuring, and you can’t measure what you are not focusing.


Pearl Zhu

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PEARL BUCK What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. -Pearl Bailey.
PEARL BAILEY The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is...
PEARL BUCK At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.
PEARL BUCK Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never d...
PEARL BUCK There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, ca...
PEARL BUCK ...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.
PEARL CLEAGE Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
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