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Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices. ”
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. ”
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. ”
I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination. ”
Folks in Washington have it all figured out - they are going to make your choices and run your life. ”
Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University. ”
You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it. ”
Phone networks can capture life on our planet. ”
You tell them that all your experience tells you this is the best way to beat this particular opposition. You persuade them and you drill them, and you tell them so many times they can hear you when they go to sleep. Then, on the day of the game, you stand on the touchline and hope to God that it works. ”
My impression of Abramovich is that he loves football, his club, and his players. He wants to know everything that is going on and is very passionate. Berlusconi, too, loves his club, but he was a man of the people and conducted his life in public. ”