Famous quotes containing the words fire, team and/or leader:
“In England if something goes wrongsay, if one finds a skunk in the gardenhe writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to take the proper measures; whereas in America, you telephone the fire department. Each satisfies a characteristic need; in the English, love of order and legalistic procedure; and here in America, what you like is something vivid, and red, and swift.”
—Alfred North Whitehead (18611947)
“Relying on any one disciplinary approachtime-out, negotiation, tough love, the star systemputs the parenting team at risk. Why? Because children adapt to any method very quickly; todays effective technique becomes tomorrows worn dance.”
—Ron Taffel (20th century)
“A Republic! Look in the history of the Earth ... To be the first mannot the Dictator, not the Sylla, but the Washington or the Aristides, the leader in talent and truthis next to the Divinity!”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)