#ran

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. ↗

— Tom Peters

#about #arranging #enhancing #management #nurturing

It's not like I'm taking 20 grand from the shows. I mean there's no record label, so this is a genuine thing. And I think most people can see that. I think that anyone who knows me, knows I do things with integrity. ↗

— Mike Peters

#genuine #grand #i #i do #i think

As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you. ↗

— Tom Peters

#brands #consumer #creates #effect #halo

Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You. ↗

— Tom Peters

#brand #business #called #ceos #companies

We're here so that Afghanistan does not once again become a sanctuary for transnational extremists the way it was when al-Qaeda planned the 9/11 attacks in the Kandahar area, conducted the initial training for the attackers in training camps in Afghanistan before they moved on to Germany and then to U.S. flight schools. ↗

— David Petraeus

#again #al-qaeda #area #attackers #attacks

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds. ↗

— Petrarch

#almost #begin #bounds #concerning #differ

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here. ↗

— Tom Petty

#around #falling #fifties #flies #get

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many. ↗

— Phaedrus

#appearance #deceives #first #first appearance #many

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts. ↗

— George Santayana

#facts #helps #ignorance #our #theory

My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly. ↗

— Liz Phair

#frankly #grandiose #how #i #identity