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A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect t

A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer. – Dean Acheson

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Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money. – Proverb

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A good manager is a man who isnt worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Dont worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and youll float to greatness on their achievements. – H.S.M. Burns

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Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and theyll knock your socks off. – Mary Ann Allison

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Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. – Vince Lombardi

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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. – George Orwell

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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. – Samuel Johnson

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Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. – Colin Powell