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When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
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The field of 'economics and organization' is still young and needs support. I have been a chaired professor much of my academic life and know that such chairs are important for recruiting and retaining faculty.
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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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I have to tell you that the innovation and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the world still lies in the United States of America.
Phil Gramm
The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.
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I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.
Stephen Hawking
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I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.
Juliet Stevenson
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Apple knows a lot of data. Facebook knows a lot of data. Amazon knows a lot of data. Microsoft used to, and still does with some people, but in the newer world, Microsoft knows less and less about me. Xbox still knows a lot about people who play games. But those are the big five, I guess.
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Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.
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There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards.
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Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy.
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Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.
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My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning.
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Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business.
Tina Brown
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Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.
Stephen Covey
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Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.
Gary Miller
I rarely use product in my hair, and when I do I have no idea which ones, nor does it matter all that much to me. And I can't remember the last time I even used a comb, much less carried one around.
James Maslow
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
Abraham Lincoln
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And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.
Lewis Black