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414 Engineer Quotes

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

Cut Decisions Destroy Job
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

Act Because Far Giving
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

Been Country Only Ordained
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

Billion Billion Dollars Century China
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The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.

Believe Competitiveness Essence Get
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

Almost Behind Carrier Compensation
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
Big Big Business Business Internet
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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

Best Capital Changed Company
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I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
Good Learned Mistakes Often
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My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.

Course Developing Gardener Had
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

Before Change Lead Manage
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The team with the best players wins.

Best Players Team Wins
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Be candid with everyone.

Candid Everyone Be Attitude
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If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
Advantage Compete Competitive Competitive Advantage
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Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

Give Give Me Highly Industry
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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

Bury Buy Cash Communicate
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You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

Anybody Balancing Eat Grow
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The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.

Absolutely Belief Counts Creativity
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

Balance Choices Consequences Make
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

Appraisal Biggest Cowards Got
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A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.

Around Business Every Globalization
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Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

Any Company Earnings Five
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Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.
About Developing Long Long Term
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Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.

Around Beat China Country
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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.

Around Forever Hard Idea
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Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

Being Business Businesses Chemical
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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.

Actually Around Bankers Banks
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Biggest Cowards Know Managers
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.

Any Feel Way Tax
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.

Ever Leader Lifetime Mitt
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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.

Bad Company Crazy Culture
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CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

About CEOs Could Cultural
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Culture drives great results.
Culture Drives Great Great Results
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You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.

Action Measure People Take
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One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.

Confidence Feel Give Go
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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

Big Bureaucracy Reputation Stiff
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

About Become Before Growing
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Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

Become Correct Events Ever
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When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

About Away Best Collapse
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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh

Another Belly Laugh Man
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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Acts Armed Back Good
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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Any Anything Black Cat
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I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.

Article Clothing How Indecent
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Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Children Easy Handicap Lives
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

Agreed Learned Man Me
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They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

Good Want Wanted Wednesday
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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip

Beliefs Discuss Gossip Indulgence
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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Beautiful Belong Cultivate Cultivating
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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

Being Being Happy Fortune Generous
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority

Authority Because Believed Made
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