Gary Hamel Quotes

While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn't unfettered financial cunning. It is, instead, the unwillingness of executives to confront the changing expectations of their stakeholders.

Gary Hamel

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CapitalismExpectationsFinancial

Politics in Washington is a contact sport. But it shouldn't be a personal animosity sport.

Joe Barton

PoliticsWashingtonPersonalContact

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

Joan Miro

LifeMeLivingMoreHumanSecret

My grandmother came with me when I moved out to New York. She stayed with me for a week. I was, you know, living in the dorm. The first year, I had a lot of anxiety, and, I remember, my teachers kept saying I had so much jaw tension.

Jessica Chastain

New YorkMeSayingAnxietyYearYou

It's flattering to people who stop you and say that you've helped them and all. But, again, you know, you've got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

Joel Osteen

HumblePeopleYouDownStopKnow

If you're in business, and you don't understand how that word of mouth works, you won't be able to take full advantage of it, how to get full adoption by getting that network to talk about you.

Robert Scoble

BusinessYouMouthUnderstandTalk

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.

Michael Eric Dyson

ChangeDayEnd Of The DayEndComedy

In the sweep of history, George W. Bush will be seen as one of our greatest presidents because of the decisions he made to keep us safe after 9/11.

Ronald Kessler

HistoryDecisionsWillSafeSeenUs

The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

Martin Seligman

FutureHopeMoreReligionsSeem

From B.A. to M.A. and on to Ph.D., my academic career was all smooth sailing. Upon receiving my degrees, I stayed on to teach at Beijing Normal University.

Liu Xiaobo

CareerTeachUniversitySailing

I think - I'm always interested in reaching people in different ways, not by - not by just standing on a - randomly on a subway platform.

Joshua Bell

PeopleThinkAlwaysSubwayStanding

I'm always trying to make movies that are better than the ones that we've made before. We don't always succeed at doing that by any means, but we're always trying to raise the stakes, raise the bar, make the movies better, and that's hard.

Jason Blum

SucceedBetterDoingTryingMovies

I wouldn't like to see a female Bond, because we wouldn't want to lose the Bond girls. But we could have a lesbian Bond - why not?

Diana Rigg

BondLoseWantWhySeeWhy Not

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