“Having worked at four separate Wall Street firms, having seen a variety of talent at those places, and having competed against Goldman as a banker, one thing you have to be struck by is the power of their recruiting.” FourOne ThingStreetsTalentWallVarietyFirmBankers Author:William D. Cohan
“We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.” PeopleCareEarthThreeJusticeFiveFourTalentSkillsTrainingPercentHundredResourcesEnglandTwentiesWestIncludingLawyerMedicalNot SureGermanyJapanConcentrationOne TimeThree TimesNinetyTwenty OneMedical CareWest Germany Author:Jimmy Carter
“Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual death. But there is now and then a genius who has no winter, and, no matter how many years he may live, on the blossom of his thought no snow falls. Genius has the climate of perpetual growth.” YearsMayMatterFallGrowthFourTalentGeniusSummerIntellectualSpringSeasonsClimateWinterSeedsSnowAutumnNow And ThenPerpetualHarvestSowingFour SeasonsSnow Falling Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Tributes and miscellany Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Tributes and miscellany
“With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.” ThreeGreaterFourTalentTablesLegsInstabilityThree Legs Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Sometimes HR transformations have been definitions. Just because someone does an e-HR system or puts in a new talent system or changes the HR function does not mean an HR transformation has occurred. We identified four phases of HR transformation. Missing any of the four phases would be an incomplete effort.” MeanDoeHas BeensSometimesWould BeEffortFourTalentMissingFunctionTransformationDefinitionsPhasesIncompleteNew Talent Author:Dave Ulrich
“There is the sheer amount of Franklin's wisdom. And the talent. Franklin played four instruments. He was the nation's leading scientist and inventor, plus a leading author, statesman, and philanthropist. There has never been anyone like him.” NationsFourTalentAmountScientistInstrumentsPlusSheerInventorStatesmenFranklinPhilanthropist Author:Charlie Munger
“I remember I thought I should become a doctor, even though I had no talent for science whatsoever. Then of course, until I was about sixteen, I thought I might have a shot as a major league baseball player. But once I hit my full adolescence I lost all interest in that. I discovered, in rapid succession, books, girls, alcohol and tobacco, and I've never turned back. Those are the four things I'm most interested in.” ShouldBookMightRememberGirlCoursesLostInterestFourPlayerTalentMajorsShotsDoctorsBaseballAlcoholLeagueAdolescenceRapidsTobaccoSuccessionSixteenBaseball PlayerMajor LeagueMajor League Baseball Author:Paul Auster