Douglas Conant Quotes

You have to talk about mistakes and then talk about what you have learned and how to move forward. You acknowledge missteps right away, you deal with them, and you move ahead.

Douglas Conant

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MistakesForwardYouAheadTalk

I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.

Joanna Trollope

JourneyFaithPeopleBeenWhoFan

Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.

Jessica Lange

TimeYouPerfectSometimesAlong

I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.

Jenny Slate

WithoutWellWorkaholicFunctionBit

Avoiding the all-too-typical divisive trappings of a takeover and creating instead a shared transnational culture - this is one of the most important lessons learned from combining Fiat and Chrysler to create FCA.

John Elkann

CultureCreateCreatingImportant

A lot of people in the movie business don't have a point of reference for me; nobody really knows who I am.

Andre Holland

BusinessI AmPeopleMeNobodyWho

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

John Lennon

GodOceanProudPrideFishMeal

I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to pick up chunk of bottle green or a shard of meringue white, what the history of the glass was. Who used it? Was it a medicine bottle? A bit of a ship's lantern? Is that bubbled piece of glass with the charred bits inside it from a fire?

Anita Shreve

SeaHistoryBeachFireGreenShip

I never get into the details regarding my own personal situation.

Jeff Fisher

DetailsSituationPersonalMy Own

To be a dean, you have to be a salesman as well as a scholar.

John Quelch

YouScholarSalesmanWellDean

Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities.

Tony Visconti

SleepRock StarKnowNowRockDays

There's been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture, that if you ask for permission upfront for something that's already legal, you'll never get it.

Travis Kalanick

LegalCorruptionYouCaptureNever

I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.

Josh McDowell

FatherHatredOnceLotHadToward

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