Charles Jones
Charles Jones
admit fix next
We just got outplayed. I can admit that. They wanted it more than we did. We have to fix that before next week.
associate books except five people today whom
You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read.
changed changing
We changed this country. You're changing this country.
confidence core game mind point president qualities senses whom
There's a point at which as president you can't game out everything. You've got to go to the core of your own way of doing things. This is a nominee, I would guess, in whom he has confidence and senses in his own mind that she has got the qualities for the job.
life worthy
The unlived life is not worthy of death.
permanent sell
It's like a permanent campaign. You need to sell yourself on each policy.
businesses competing constantly facing scale spread struggle
It's like margarine in the sense that we're spread very thinly. And we often find that we're competing with businesses that are much larger. We're constantly facing the struggle of scale and size.
blind number saved
It saved us from going down a number of blind alleys.
learn
I wanted to come out to learn more.
good policy selling
You want someone who is good at both, the policy part of it and the selling part.
apparent due influenced license lower quarter revenue
While our first quarter is traditionally a lower revenue quarter due to the seasonality of our business, license revenue was also adversely influenced by an apparent spillover into August,
associated believe control houses leak revelation white
Most White Houses believe that a leak is an uncontrolled revelation where they're not in control of it. Otherwise, it's associated with implementation of policy.
days exactly few good impression people performance point recover strength top trying
My impression of what they're trying to do after the first few days is to recover exactly the kind of performance that they say they're good at, which is essentially an executive-style leadership. That is to say, 'We've got good people in all the top positions, we're hierarchical, we plan.' That's how they're trying to recover. You go with your strength to a point of weakness.
blame failure somebody until
No one is a failure until they blame somebody else.