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...agile enough to steer through trouble and exploit new opportunities. That's how Jack Welch at General Electric became a star and why GE perpetually trades at a higher multiple of earnings than the average stock. Welch is proven. You can buy his stock and throw it in a drawer. Ditto Charles Knight at Emerson Electric and Lawrence Bossidy at AlliedSignal...
...Sosa is different now. When asked about his 30-30 medallion, he laughs with embarrassment, saying it has been retired to a drawer in the Dominican Republic. "Oh, it was big," he says, using his large hands to illustrate an ostentatious circle. "Sometimes you do some things, and it's just a situation. And after a while you think, 'Wow, I shouldn't have done that.'" Now, he deflects compliments by calling McGwire--and just about everybody else...
Left strewn on the floor were the green-and-red book, the journals and loose blue-and-pink sheets containing Anne's account of two years in hiding. They were picked up and put in a desk drawer by Miep Gies, Otto's secretary. Gies, now 89, is an international hero for helping to hide the Franks. The identity of the tipster remains unclear. However, Muller pointedly notes that there were discrepancies in the postwar testimony of a Dutch cleaning woman that were never followed...
...servant girl at home) became a bigamist and started a separate family as "Doctor Levingston"--the name that appears on his tombstone. All his life, Big Bill loved money, and when he had it, he tied the bills in bundles with twine and stacked them in a dresser drawer like cordwood. It was from his charlatan/shaman father that the boy John acquired the knowledge that money is magic...
...stumbled upon these quotes unaware the other day. I was cleaning out my desk drawer and found the index cards filled with words. The power of Fitzgerald jumped out at me again, differently this time. Never had I so fully identified with his lost generation, called by the tolling of bells as my class will be as we commence, palpably surrounded by the spirit of the past and of Harvard tradition, even as we take our leave of this home. I have learned the old creeds alongside the new, and together they make for a difficult lesson. We are taught...