Alignment of vision, mission, values and attitudes need to be matched between you and those you choose to surround yourself with. The cost of training or replacing will be very minimal and less painful if recruitment, selection and positioning are done well. This applies even to general employment processes, whether at leadership or staff levels.

“What it does is it takes a picture of your spine, and it tells you how your balance is. Do you lean forwards, backwards, sideways? Do you have any spinal curvature that needs to be fixed? This allows you to get into the strongest position from which to play golf from.”

“We are pleased that our strong top-line momentum continued this quarter across all operating divisions and on top of the outstanding growth achieved in the year ago period. We are especially encouraged that global pricing was positive for the first time in two years, despite difficult cost and competitive environments.”

“I don't necessarily like the position we're in, but we're going to do what we can do to win basketball games. No matter how...we're going to finish the season with class. We're going to play our tails off, and we're not going to let our guys quit.”

“We are committed to work with the government and the people of UK and take this relationship to new heights. While India is an integral part of the solution we offer our clients, far from taking jobs out of the UK, we are actually creating hundreds of new positions while investing in the UK economy,”

“I had been stopped a couple of times -- once in a Lexus and in a Blazer. Both of the cars had factory sound systems. I understand the citizen's position on noise, but the city was towing cars that didn't have loud sound systems. When it happened to me, I knew there was something wrong.”

“He's a long ways from where he was two weeks ago - and he's getting better every day. He's really athletic, strong, big and he can close. He's got the tools. He just has to learn all the little details of the position. But he's getting there.”

“The evidence for widespread asymptomatic infections is just not there. The (more recent) studies that have been done, one of the reasons frankly that I think they haven't been followed up on, is they haven't found many positives. You don't get too excited about all negative serology (blood work).”

“Nokia is delighted to establish a new R&D centre in this part of China. ... This marks another important step forward for Nokia in implementing its localization strategy. On the other hand, this R&D Center will further strengthen our partnership with and our market position in this important economic center of China.”

“Anytime you do something that opens a few doors I guess that's positive, but in this case it's not going to satisfy producers here. The elements of this agreement that I have seen may be helpful in some respects, but certainly it's not what producers here are expecting. It doesn't solve the problem.”