"My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people."

People, Job

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"My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people."

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier."

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"Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it."

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"A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization."

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"The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison."

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"It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration."

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"As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for."

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"It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most."

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"No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't."

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"We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give."

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"We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store."

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