#pan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

#bonus #certain #companies #diversity #executive

Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#pansy #peace #anger

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#ask #butter #daddy #daughter #face

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse. ↗

— Elizabeth Kenny

#panic #part #plays #training

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#companies #different #employees #finance #large

At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way. ↗

— Gelsey Kirkland

#big #company #environment #expose #feel

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot. ↗

— Lane Kirkland

#free trade #harlot #hear #hearing #japanese

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#believe #build-up #contest #detente #effect

Before we even consider expanding Medicare, or another program based on its rates, we must reform our Medicare payment system so that it rewards value, not volume, and doesn't disadvantage states like Minnesota that provide high-quality care in an efficient way. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#based #before #care #consider #disadvantage

One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#appropriate #capital #company #create #creativity