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Like almost every other executive, Bewkes walked the walk dictated by conservative economist Milton Friedman, who convinced corporate America that its sole purpose was to deliver profits to shareholders measured by the value of its stock every quarter. Poor quarterly earnings calls to Wall Street became the financial equivalent of DEFCON 1. HBO, in other words, was at the mercy of the Street.
Pandora's Box
Peter Biskind
Franklin's reputation was also elevated by the emergence of that distinctly American philosophy known as pragmatism, which holds, as Franklin had, that the truth of any proposition, whether it be a scientific or moral or theological or social one, is based on how well it correlates with experimental results and produces a practical outcome.
Benjamin Franklin
Walter Isaacson
As I discovered in Iraq and Afghanistan, war elicits towering courage and commitment that is humbling to behold. In combat’s terror, there is a simple purity of duty that stands in seeming contradiction to destruction and death. In perhaps the worst of humankind’s habits, war can display the best in those called to fight. We should celebrate the best but remember the worst.
On Character
Stanley McChrystal
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