James Mcnerney Quotes

#1. Say it isn't true
That there always has been and always will be war
Say it isn't true
And apart from all the fine things that man has struggled for
Say it isn't true
There always has been and always will be war

Jackson Browne

#2. The key to making acquisitions is being ready because you really never know when the right big one is going to come along.

James McNerney

#3. I start with people's growth, my own growth included. I don't start with the company's strategy or products. I start with people's growth because I believe that if the people who are running and participating in a company grow, then the company's growth will in many respects take care of itself.

James McNerney

#4. When I lose my column again, I'm sure I'll get hungry again. Maybe it's having a kid, but it's probably just getting to do what I always wanted to do - I'm really not that hungry.

Joel Stein

#5. These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon.

James McNerney

#6. My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned - the captain earns that role; it's not because he's the coach's son. These are all things we know, but in today's world, it's not a bad idea to remind ourselves.

James McNerney

#7. If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face.

Elizabeth Banks

#8. I was lucky to have a great dad.

James McNerney

#9. Compassion and brutality can coexist in the same individual and in the same moment ...

Primo Levi

#10. You don't want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I've done later in the week.

Ike Barinholtz

#11. Human presence is a creative and turbulent sacrament, a visible sign of invisible grace.

John O'Donohue

#12. There was no question that in our house doing well, doing it the right way, school, sports - there was an expectation. One of the things I've taken away from that is that I'm unafraid to expect a fair amount from people. It makes them so much better - you're doing them a disservice if you don't.

James McNerney

#13. I don't hang out with the Hollywood cool people. I'm not out trying to make friends with people because they're famous.

Jessica Alba

#14. It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

David Hackworth

#15. For the decisions of our will are often so directly opposed to the decisions of our emotions, that, if we are in the habit of considering our emotions as the test, we shall be very apt to feel like hypocrites in declaring those things to be real which our will alone has decided.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#16. In a while, her eyes felt leaden and she felt sleep overpower her, even as she fought to keep her eyes open. In vain, I tried to churn within her, a little nugget of fear, trying desperately to warn her of impending danger.

Deepti Menon

#17. Even the most time-honoured truths do not have to be accepted until they are your truths.

Deepak Chopra

#18. I loved 'Iron Man.'

Ty Simpkins

#19. Leadership development is about helping people grow, and if I can get people as individuals growing, then I've got a company that grows,

James McNerney

#20. A certain percentage, they tell us, must every year go... that way... to the devil, I suppose, so that the rest may remain chaste, and not be interfered with.

Anton Chekhov

#21. The stereotypical successful entrepreneur is Mark Zuckerberg - the young college dropout who dreamed up a crazy idea while in his dorm room.

Vivek Wadhwa

#22. relax and release,

Michael A. Singer