"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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"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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"What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros."
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"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example."
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"If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple."
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"If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people."
-Richard Stengel
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"Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth you have to cut yourself to theirs."
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"I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies."
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"I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats."
-Joe Davis
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