#lied

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience? ↗

— Thomas John Watson, Sr.

#company #cost #employee #experience #fire

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool. ↗

— Esther Williams

#character #develop #discipline #first #girl

All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court. ↗

— Venus Williams

#business #called #company #court #design

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops. ↗

— James Wolcott

#alike #bunny #candidate #consultant #crowd

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#children #civil #epithet #grant #i

President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied. ↗

— John Yoo

#applied #bush #commanders #conflict #conventions

There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#burden #certain #could #designated #ever

I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#else #everyone #i #judged #should

I have always applied myself the same for club and country. ↗

— Steven Gerrard

#applied #club #country #i #myself

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#behavior #courtesy #heart #love #outward