Quotable quotes: baseball on business
Sunday, July 27th, 2008Post from Leadership Turn Image credit: komiya CC license
Ever notice how apropos a comment made about one thing is for something totally unrelated?
I found these quotes about baseball by baseball greats and laughed at how well they fit the current business climate.
“Finish last in your league and they call you Idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you Doctor”. —Abe Lemons (Or CEO if it’s business school.)
“Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.” —Leo Durocher (Business really took this advice to heart, think Joe Nacchio, Ken Lay, Jeffrey Skilling, Chainsaw Al Dunlap, the list goes on and on.)
“Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.” Bill Terry (Does this mean that business will survive short-term Wall Street thinking?)
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