17 Quotes by Jim Korkis


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    The leader sets the tone for his followers. If something goes wrong and the leader acts worried or angry, then everyone picks up on that attitude and it spirals larger and larger.

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    A leader takes things personally. A manager sees things as “just business”.

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    Song of the South was not a malicious attempt to reinforce the foolish stereotype of the inferiority of the black race, but rather an attempt to show that children of all races and different social statuses could play together as friends, learn important moral lessons from stories, and survive times of trouble by finding a place to laugh.

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    Create an atmosphere without fear and encourage laughter. Of course, there will be consequences for wrong decisions, but people shouldn’t be so apprehensive that they are fearful to make any decision. Humor can help keep things in perspective.

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    I’ve always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it because you never know what will happen,” stated Walt.

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    Horizons opened exactly one year after Epcot Center opened. Amusingly, the phrase in the attraction – “If we can dream it, we can do it” – that is often falsely credited to Walt Disney was in reality the creation of Imagineer Tom Fitzgerald, who modeled for the Audio-Animatronic “young man” character with the solo submarine.

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    The disadvantage to humor, and where a good leader must be vigilant, is that everyone has a different sense of humor and humor can be used as a weapon to humiliate others.

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