"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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"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."

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