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Douglas Conant Quotes

The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.

Douglas Conant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american

Topics

Business Food Simple Grow Fighting

I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.

Mel Brooks

Religion Think Jewish Because Rather

The problem with interest rates are that you are not modeling a single number, you are modeling a whole term structure, so it is a sort of different type of problem.

John Hull

Problem You Modeling Structure Whole

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.

Anna Quindlen

Hat Me Saying Husband Bible Silly

I'm kind of a nerd. A square. And I'm terrible at telling jokes. I always forget the punch line.

Jeff MacNelly

Forget Kind Always Line Jokes Punch

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

John Starks

Game Remember You Quiet Ready Play

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

Sophie Swetchine

Walk Others Reform

When I can afford it, I'm very into organic food and I love going to restaurants that use organic produce and such. I think that it's a shame for everyone that, unfortunately, organic can be pretty expensive, so you just do what you can.

Sprague Grayden

Love Food Think You I Can Shame

'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool - and work that's cool isn't confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It's available to all of us and any of us.

Tom Peters

Life Work Business Excellence Cool

Anybody who knows me knows my vote can't be bought.

Judy Davis

Me Vote Who Knows Anybody Bought

I think it's extremely important that children are exposed to reading.

Diana Gabaldon

Children Reading Think Important

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.

Douglass North

Job Young Washington Chess Brilliant

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

Craig Ferguson

Living Comfortable Beyond Earning