Maandans 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

As a quarterback, can you throw it where you are looking? — Phil Simms

I met someone special today," I told her. "His name is Lawson Gale." She wagged her tail at me. "I dunno, Rosie, but if there's any such thing as perfect for me, he just might be it. — N.R. Walker

Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength that's very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who's going to look after his woman. — Stephen Moyer

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself. — William Faulkner

Children, Never look Back! and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles. — Milan Kundera

Money is usually attracted, not pursued. — Jim Rohn

The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning. — Plato

The reproach of a friend should be strictly just, but not too frequent. — Eustace Budgell

Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them. — Nora Ephron

Discipline is freedom. It is you getting yourself to do what you really want to do. — Patricia Moreno

People love to help. I don't have to be insecure and know it all. — Chip Wilson

For religion to truly become an aid to humanity as a whole, every human being must make sincere efforts to break down the dogmatic barriers among different religions constructed by the pathologically ill and dangerous fundamentalists. — Abhijit Naskar

I was just cleaning up my own mess, Baz. Like, no one would call you a hero for cleaning up your own vomit. — Rainbow Rowell