Quote of the Week
"It’s impossible, that’s for sure. So let’s start working."
-Phillip Petit from Man On Wire
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Quote of the Week: Obama and McCain’s Best Moments
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Quote of the Week: "IF" by Rudyard Kipling
My friend Andy Komaroff shared this beautiful poem tonight at the rehearsal dinner for my wedding: If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait [...]
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Quote of the Week: Madiba’s Eight Lessons
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Quote of the Week: Let America Be
A few weeks back I attended a play hosted by Stanford Law School, a one-man-show by Lawrence Fishburne about Thurgood Marshall. At the end, retiring Justice Marshall quotes a poem from his classmate Langston Hughes: Oh, let America be America again The land that never has been yet — And yet must be — the [...]
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Quote of the Week
From Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs: You have to, in your own life, get people to want to work with you and want to help you. The organizational chart, in my opinion, means very little. I need my bosses’ goodwill, but I need the goodwill of my subordinates even more. Because they can make [...]
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