Charles Jones
Charles Jones
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Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.
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The Black Panther Party armed themselves. They didn't back down from that.
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In a time when his party almost never exceeded 51 percent of the seats in the House, he was able time and again to command the discipline to deliver. He was always playing on the edge, and people who play on the edge, and are effective, become targets.
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It's certainly worth the effort, but it's damned hard to do.
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It's hurt him, and it's hurt him where he has always believed he had great strength, and that's in executive management. This looks like they don't know what they are doing.
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It used to be thousands of people hanging out on the streets, getting ready for the parade with their kids and stuff. Kids are all in school somewhere else now. It's not really a family event today. Just people who've been able to come back, working. It's really sad.
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We just got outplayed. I can admit that. They wanted it more than we did. We have to fix that before next week.
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We changed this country. You're changing this country.
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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.
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The unlived life is not worthy of death.
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I wanted to come out to learn more.
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You want someone who is good at both, the policy part of it and the selling part.
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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.
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No one is a failure until they blame somebody else.