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“There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.”
Jascha Heifetz
“It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.”
Mia Hamm
“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.”
Bob Anderson
“The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.”
Eric Hoffer
“Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.”
Donald Rumsfeld
“The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom”
Bertolt Brecht
“If from the top of a long cold barren hill I hear the distant whistle of a thrush which seems to come up from some warm woody shelter beyond the edge of the hill, this sound coming faint over the rocks with a mingled feeling of strangeness and joy, the idea of the place about me, and the imaginary one beyond will all be combined together in such a manner in my mind as to become inseparable.”
William Hazlitt
“It's no coincidence that three of the top five stock option traders in a recent trading contest were all ex-Marines.”
Robert Prechter Jr.
“When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.”
Alfred North Whitehead
