Frontmen Of Country Quotes & Sayings

Many of the Abbott disciplines trace back to 1968, when it hired a remarkable financial officer named Bernard H. Semler. Semler did not see his job as a traditional financial controller or accountant. Rather, he set out to invent mechanisms that would drive cultural change. He created a whole new framework of accounting that he called Responsibility Accounting, wherein every item of cost, income, and investment would be clearly identified with a single individual responsible for that item.4 The idea, radical for the 1960s, was to create a system wherein every Abbott manager in every type of job was responsible for his or her return on investment, with the same rigor that an investor holds an entrepreneur responsible. There would be no hiding behind traditional accounting allocations, no slopping funds about to cover up ineffective management, no opportunities for finger-pointing. — James C. Collins

People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore. — Michael Birch

There may be deep thought, but deep people don't exist. Our bodies must float on the surface, otherwise we drown. — Anthony Marais

There goes a river dragging an ocean behind it. — Rumi

In the trial of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday, witnesses emotionally testified about the abuse the former dictator inflicted on them. Afterward, a tearful Saddam said, 'Ah, good times.' — Amy Poehler

It's not too bad to be a sort of pop icon, you know? It's not too tough to handle. — Lynda Carter

I'm taking one for the team,
Like Martin Luther King,
taking one for a dream — Method Man

Every sacred soul has in a sacred body. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When people value your leadership practices, they in effect buy your leadership. They're inspired to excel and act with commitment. But when employees don't buy your leadership, they disengage, becoming noncustomers of your leadership. — Anonymous

The time to start worrying about the consequences of our editorial decisions was before we raised a generation of people who get all of their information from television, and who believe that the solution to every problem is simple enough that you can find it before the 21 minutes of the sitcom are over. Or — Matt Taibbi

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering. — Bill Gates

Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own kind. — Roald Dahl

What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things — Epictetus

I've always been a player and a person who wanted to be the best at whatever he did. — Eli Manning

I always try to get at least eight hours of sleep each night. It's the best thing I can do for my body. — Candace Cameron