Atul Gawande Quotes

Trump wants a team of fighters. He wants a team of people that understand what they're up against and who's out to get them, to stop them, to destroy them, to impede them or what have you.

It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.

When I reached the top in business, I adjusted to my new position – I became bolder and crazier than before. And I listened even less to people who tried to slow me down.

It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was important, because I learned a lot through trial and error. And it's tough to have to go through trial and error when you're a big-league manager.

I like taking on the tough guys.

It's a fist fight - the idea is to go out there and impose my will.

I want superfights, to challenge other opponents.

I'd fight anybody. People are turning me down and I know that for a fact.

I do not want to be in fights where people see me as an obstacle on the road. I want to be the man challenging.

Everyone's out there trying to take what's mine, and they're going to have to fight me for it.

I like to battle with defenders if I have to. I don't know where it comes from; I am not a nasty guy.

I want the biggest fights possible. If guys don't want to fight me, then I can't get them. But it's not on me.

You have to be very vocal about being willing to fight anyone.

If it were up to me, I'd be fighting chumps.

Politics is not for sissies.

Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face.

Sales bring out the worst in people.

It's funny how different people are. If I'd been this kid and someone was snarling "Ordering a pizza?" at me, without even thinking, I would have snarled back "Yeah. You want pepperoni?" -Maximum Ride

Every business is about understanding people. Which people you have to get through. Which people you have to embrace. Which people you have to jump over. Which people you have to push out of the way. That’s the game.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

All the shy people are doomed! Natural selection favors the loud and the aggressive

I don't think anything of Laura Frank. You heard me - Laura Frank. Not Lawrence. Laura... It's not that I blame him, I just wish he'd go to a manly tactic and just fight me. Don't whine. When he whines, that's when I change his name of Lawrence Frank.

I always am very aggressive and putting out much more than people would like, but that's the business I'm in.

Every top team has got at least one top keeper. You need people to move, managers to change. You need something to happen for something to happen. You can't just charge in somewhere.