#k

What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves. ↗

— Bob Parsons

#business #everything #exactly #i #important

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#committee #committees #dies #flowers #grows

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#deserve #give #people #politics #think

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk. ↗

— Michael Parkinson

#been #forty #knows #man #married

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#early #five #hundred #kansas #miles

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#compelled #did #failure #fear #fight

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#any #historic #history #important #know

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free. ↗

— Rosa Parks

#free #i #like #other #people

Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back. ↗

— Maxfield Parrish

#allowing #always #back #because #capabilities

Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. ↗

— Joseph Parry

#gold #keep #make #new #new friends