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Henry Mintzberg Quotes

Often, M.B.A.s will parachute around from one company or industry to another, without really understanding what's behind it.

Henry Mintzberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: canadian
Birth: September 2, 1939

Topics

Understanding Will Company Without

We lived in one of those half-basement apartments, and on our first night of being in America, someone reached through the grate that protects the window and stole our laundry detergent - which wasn't a big deal, but it felt symbolic when I heard about it later as an adult.

Window Night America Someone Laundry

My natural bent is to have an overabundance of energy, and motion-capture essentializes your every breath, your every move. Seeing yourself through that mask, you realize how far you can pull back and make the performance even more powerful.

Yourself Performance Energy Mask You

My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.

People Young Old Real Heroes Songs

Kids don't like what they don't understand, and judo was always my social outlet. I always felt really socially awkward, and I couldn't speak very well when I was younger. When I was doing judo, it was something that I could understand and someplace where I felt that I belonged and fit in.

Speak Doing Understand Awkward Well

And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez.

New York Me Doing New First Up

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

Problems Logic Philosophy Confusion

I've always approached my career and my life, you know, one day at a time, as if this was the last day that I'm going, because you never know as an athlete and as a dancer. You never know what can happen today, tomorrow.

Life Today Time Day Tomorrow You

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

Women Connections Language Way Most

'Boldface' is a pilot term, a magic word to describe the procedures that could, in a crisis, save your life. We say that 'boldface is written in blood' because often it's created in response to an accident investigation. It highlights the series of steps that should have been taken to avoid a fatal crash, but weren't.

Life Magic Crisis Blood Say Pilot

Ice cream is my vice.

Ice Ice Cream Vice Cream

Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.

Judging Tuesday Last 24 Hours Hours

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

William J. H. Boetcker

You Prosperity Thrift Bring Cannot

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