Quotes #23: Dunlap, Getty, Collins, Trimmer, Capone, Melliniger, Twain, Willilams, Ebbers, Keynes
Consultants, even the good ones, can fail because they only recommend a course of action; they still need somebody motivated to implement, the consultant's job is no more than an expensive academic excercise. --Al Dunlap
Some people find oil. Others don't. --J. Paul Getty
To put your core purpose to work, you need mechanisms -- the practices that bring what you stand for to life and stimulate change. Mechanisms force things to happen that reinforce your company's core purpose, converting that purpose to action. --Jim Collins
If any one of the links breaks or fails, the customer is not going to be satisfied. And one thing that has become apparent to us is that the leanest chain wins. --Jeff Trimmer
This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it. --Al Capone
Walk it through. Ask the questions. --Doug Melliniger
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it and when he can. --Mark Twain
I refuse to settle for mediocrity. It always tries to pop up but I feel like my life is dedicated to getting rid of it. As soon as I see it I start mixing things up. --Katie Williams
Truthiness trumps dry logic, dull evidence and mere facts. It disdains or simply bypasses laborious intellectual examination in favor of what feels right. David Barash
Here you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast at that. The Queen in Alice and Wonderland
"I don't know about technology, and I don't know about finance and accounting". Bernard Ebbers, Ex-CEO of Worldcom
The rich are only tolerable so long as their gains can be held roughly what they have contributed to society. --John Maynard Keynes
