"The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard."
-Jack Welch
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"If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.“
-Jack Welch
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"I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success."
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"You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that."
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"I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success."
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"Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while."
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"I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world."
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"The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible."
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"More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue."
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"But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people."
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"I've always known I wanted a family."
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"And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure."
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