Robert Townsend
United States
30 Jul 1920 // 12 Jan 1998
Executive, Author
30 Jul 1920 // 12 Jan 1998
Executive, Author
Quotes
Nobody should be chief executive officer of anything for more than five or six years. By then he's stale, bored, and utterly dependent upon his own clich�s.
If you have to have a policy manual, publish the Ten Commandments.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays