#ene

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#communication #concentration #discrimination #entrepreneurial #essential

While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers. ↗

— David Talbot

#because #been #beneficial #bush #bush presidency

Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing. ↗

— Susan George

#acquisitions #actually #called #course #downsizing

The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world. ↗

— John Strachan

#awakened #churches #civilized #civilized world #death

Although many seniors are happy with the generous drug coverage they have from their former employers, the number of companies offering that kind of coverage has decreased by one-third since the mid-1980s. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#companies #coverage #decreased #employers #former

Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#british #destruction #french #further #germans

When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#boy #brother #cousins #down #each

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened. ↗

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

#before #could #enlightened #had #i

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.' ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#back #down #drawn #falling #falling in love

Politeness is the poison of collaboration. ↗

— Edwin Land

#poison #politeness