To highlight how rare this breed is, a new CEO of a large company once said, "I have more than 1000 people in my head office organization, 900 can tell me something’s gone wrong, 90 can tell me what’s gone wrong, nine can tell me why it went wrong, and one can actually fix it!" Finding and nurturing that one is the challenge for every company.

Leaders Take The Initiative, But Go-To People Get Things Done

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein

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For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
Alexander Pope

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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams

"We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."

John W. Gardner
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"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology."

Rebecca West
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"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."

Thomas Szasz

I do not know why I have been thinking of Rep. Barney Frank the last couple of days. I think he honestly cares about low income families trying to put a decent, affordable roof over their heads. It is good to have a legislator in a powerful position who cares about low income families but that concerns me, too.  I do not believe the subprime extravaganza helped out low income families achieve the long term increase in home ownership we sought. In hindsight it will probably be viewed as a wasted effort that primarily benefited “other” people. My gut feeling is that he will forgive and forget and we will be facing another subprime sequel in the nearby future.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

Russell Baker

“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.”

Bob Hope
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“I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”

Rita Rudner
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