Joel Ross quotes

“Without a strategy, an organization is like a ship without a rudder, going around in circles. It's like a tramp; it has no place to go.”
-- Joel Ross

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“The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.”

“I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.”

“I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...”

Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.158, Random House

“Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses”

“In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.”

“Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.”

“The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask.”

“Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking images and expectations, and in establishing specific desires and objectives determines the direction an organization takes. The net result of this influence is to change the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary. In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions.”

“Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.”

Source : "Books of the Times" by Charles Poore, The New York Times, p. 23, April 20, 1953.

“from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship”