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I like to do all the talking myself.  It saves time, and prevents arguments." "But
- Oscar Wilde
Lord Henry had not come in yet. He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
- Oscar Wilde
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
- Oscar Wilde
In the world of teams and teamwork I often find the belief that to work and communicate effectively, team members must be close comrades. In fact, this is a common misperception. Although team members don't need to know one another very well personally to perform as a team, they do need to know one another's abilities and potential contributions.
- Pat MacMillan
Crystal clear roles characterize high performance teams. Every team member is clear about his or her particular role as well as those of the other team members.
- Pat MacMillan
The gun that scatters too much does not bag the birds.
- Dale Carnegie
For the Lord aimed for him to do and not to spend too much time thinking, because his brain it's like a piece of machinery: it won't stand a whole lot of racking. It's best when it all runs along the same, doing the day's work and not no one part used no more than needful.
- William Faulkner
he remembered his uncle saying once how little vocabulary man really needed to get comfortably and even efficiently through his life, how not only in the individual but within his whole type and race and kind a few simple cliches served his few simple passions and needs and lusts.
- William Faulkner
For the Lord aimed for him to do and not to spend too much time thinking, because his brain it's like a piece of machinery: it won't stand a whole lot of racking. It's best when it all runs along the same, doing the day's work and not no one part used no more than needful.
- William Faulkner
The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
- William James
Whatever you have, you must either use or lose
- Henry Ford
Strive for minimum waste, minimum profit, maximum distribution.
- Henry Ford