- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Service Quotes
On service, duty, and the trust it depends on.
Some quotes here treat service as an academic or civic duty - sociology existing to protect individual freedom, classical language once required for public documents - while another simply credits good service for winning loyal customers. Education covers the more institutional side.
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- Expectations
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service.
- Cop-Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be a cop-out or a wash-out or a dropout to come to our college. You have to work with your hands. You have to have a dignity of labor. You have to show that you have a skill that you can offer to the community and provide a service to the community. So we started the Barefoot College, and we redefined professionalism.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grandpa didn't have any idea of customer service. But he wanted to make a living. Eventually, we saw it was not in our best interest to be arguing with customers.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm here on this planet to live in service to humanity.
- Infrastructure
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to invest in telecommunication infrastructure with redundancies to combat denial of service attacks.
- Travel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought when I hit 50 years old that'd be it for the travel. I don't have to tell you - you wait at an airport, your flight's delayed, get on a 14-hour flight, get off, get stuck in traffic, you get to the hotel and the room service is closed.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going public is 18-month process, while an acquisition is a 6-month process. Going public means going under so much scrutiny, regulatory approval, auditing, magnified 10 times. Having the stomach to do that isn't necessarily in my DNA. My DNA is building a product and a service.
- DNA
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- Nov 07, 2020
My DNA is building a product and a service.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020