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"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'"
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"Great leaders understand the importance of assigning the right people to the right positions. If you put the wrong person in the wrong place, no matter how talented or earnest they are, they will never reach the peak of their potential. Their strengths will be underutilized and they may never measure up to your expectations. Reassign to get the best out of others and the situation."

"The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission."

"Management: An art of handling conflicting Egos to meet a common objective, be it political, organisational or societal in nature."

"Leadership is relationship."

"All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the Knicks organization, I couldn't allow myself to think that way or believe that."

"Successful people carefully manage their energy and associations, they are gatekeepers."

"You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness."

"Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented."

"It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them."

"I don't know if we'd have been as dominant as we were last season. The new things, the new ideas the manager brought in everyone took them on board so well. He is special."
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"Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him."

"No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought."

"How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven."

"Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function."

"The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers."

"All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someone else's nose to prove they had been somewhere or done something. And I thought someday everyone in America will suddenly jump up and say, 'I don't take any shit!' and start pushing and cursing and clawing at the man next to him."

"Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning."

"The word has not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis with the host."

"The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible."
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