"My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too."

Talent, People, Job, Water

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"My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too."

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"Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born."

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"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."

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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."

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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"You will only succeed in the field where your gift is."

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"Use the capacity and talent given to you by God to go and subdue the world given to you by Him."

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"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!"

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"Put the right people in the right positions to ensure their personal strengths and talents are being utilized and appreciated."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success."

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"If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them."

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"Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs."

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"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."

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"If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century."

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"Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born."

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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."

"You will only succeed in the field where your gift is."

"Use the capacity and talent given to you by God to go and subdue the world given to you by Him."

"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."

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"Put the right people in the right positions to ensure their personal strengths and talents are being utilized and appreciated."

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"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."

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