“Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.” LongEnergyTermCompanyProduceBuildingPressureFinancialChiefsBoardsLong TermExecutivesExpensesOfficersEarningFinancial MarketsTakeoversChief Executives Author:J. Irwin Miller
“And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.” LongSelfReasonShadowChiefsKneesFancyDelusionBowsSpears Book:The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete) Source: The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)
“John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young Americans into political junkies, got shot in the head for his efforts, murdered in Dallas by some hapless geek named Oswald who worked for either Castro, the mob, Jimmy Hoffa, the CIA, his dominatrix landlady or the odious, degenerate FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. The list is long and crazy - maybe Marilyn Monroe's first husband fired those shots from the grassy knoll. Who knows?” KnowsFirstsLongWholeYoungPoliticalHouseWhiteEffortGenerationsCrazyHusbandShotsListsCampaignsChiefsWhite HouseGeekCiaFbiJimmyDegeneratesJunkieDallasCastroHooverJ Edgar HooverJimmy Hoffa Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the chief virtues; but to continue in trade long after this result is obtained, is one of the signs, not to be mistaken, of a sordid and ignoble nature.” MenLongResultsMoneyVirtueTradeChiefsMaking MoneyApplicationMistakenCompetenceSomething BetterIgnoble Author:Christian Nestell Bovee