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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

Delay is the deadliest form of denial. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#delay #denial #form

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

I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#assignments #before #bureau #europe #even

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

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

Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical. ↗

— Estelle Parsons

#been #cyclical #getting #sort #theater