#able

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#better #get #hire #leave #look

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#excellence #less #more #profitable #pursuit

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs. ↗

— David Ogilvy

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I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#cultures #feel #get #i #i feel

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.' ↗

— Ann Curry

#end #i #in the end #life #made

Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn't end up liking me - they ended up being able to deal with me. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#being #deal #decided #did #end

I know that human beings are capable of anything. ↗

— Ben Okri

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I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable. ↗

— Ben Okri

#friends #happy #homeless #i #lived

During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful. ↗

— George Andrew Olah

#admired #chemists #contact #during #establish

I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish a small research group in organic chemistry, housed in temporary laboratories of an industrial research institute. ↗

— George Andrew Olah

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