A G Lafley Quotes

#1. You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.

Robert Plant

#2. Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

Nick Robinson

#3. Remember that the next time you touch me in front of other people. Having an audience or even being in public won't stop me from touching you back. This is my only warning.

R.K. Lilley

#4. Listen to your own intuit. Have stronger wisdom to judge your own belief and things that you desire to do NOT what others want you to do.

Ashish Patel

#5. If my neighbors manage to survive without killing themselves, without going mad, maintaining an interest in political parties, not yielding to despair, resolutely pursuing the fight for existence, can their griefs really be genuine?

Osamu Dazai

#6. You - who are smarter than cruise ships - can empathize, but also, however, you cannot.

from "Cruise Ship Disaster Empathy

Forest Lewis

#7. Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth and death of living creatures, but is also the very essence of inorganic matter. For modern physicists ... Shiva's dance is the dance of subatomic matter.

Fritjof Capra

#8. Good design is serious business.

Alan G. Lafley

#9. Porgy is ... an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen, a man who should never have attempted it has written a work that has a considerable power.

George Gershwin

#10. I love you"..."But I made you cry.

Jodi Picoult

#11. When a company sets out to participate, rather than win, it will inevitably fail to make the tough choices and the significant investments that would make winning even a remote possibility.

A.G. Lafley

#12. Alan Lafley, who runs Procter & Gamble, apparently says: "A measure of a person's power is that their circle of influence is greater than their circle of control.

Julia Middleton

#13. I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.

Richard Cobden

#14. Imagination, like memory, can transform lies to truth.

Christina Garcia

#15. I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.

Oscar Isaac

#16. Let's execute along this strategy, but know that we'll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it.

Alan G. Lafley

#17. Everything that I've done so far has had a bigger budget than the last, but I've never ever felt the benefit of the bigger budget because the ideas always exceed the budget.

Edgar Wright