Characteristics-of-leadership Quote by Richard Preston Download Open image ““A good businessman is hard to bruise and quick to heal.”” — Richard Preston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Characteristics-of-leadership
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“Some wounds never heal, and that man has just taken such a wounding.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
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“A good businessman knows how to make a profit. An engineer makes sure it runs well. We need more leaders who are task oriented.” — Phil Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Nine out of ten humans killed? And you're not bothered." A look of mysterious thoughtfulness crossed his face. "A virus can be useful to… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax. — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it. — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“He becomes dizzy and utterly weak, and his spine goes limp and nerveless and he loses all sense of balance. The room is turning… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“Ebola Zaire attacks every organ and tissue in the human body except skeletal muscle and bone. It is a perfect parasite because it transforms… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“Jahrling sat down at his desk and sighed. There was a landfill of papers on his desk, mostly about smallpox, and it was discouraging.… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“we could eradicate smallpox from nature, but we could not uproot the virus from the human heart” — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“C.J. had spoken longingly of finding the African termite queen, the glistening white sac that was half a foot long and as thick as… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight as they… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“Your mouth bleeds, and you bleed around your teeth, and you may have hemorrhages from the salivary glands—literally every opening in the body bleeds,… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the… — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting. What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“The heart of a company’s performance is hardwired to the hearts of its managers.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
