#people

I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all. ↗

— William Allen White

#biggest #dollar #every #give #i

We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#class #country #everyday #forget #great

We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly. ↗

— Bill Williams

#am #bored #by the people #fly #i

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition. ↗

— Charles Williams

#charitable #contrition #encourage #every #exhibit

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#assume #context #dangerous #feels #given

In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#frustrated #function #mission #organization #people

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#command #control #leadership #military #most

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#comes #cycle #destroying #employ #end

If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#america #angry #around #bar #currently

Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, 'No, I just want to be an actor.' ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#always #ask #even #i #just