Great Minds, Great Quotes...and the PLCB

Apply great wisdom to the situation of the PLCB...and you realize how badly this has all turned out.

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill 

     What organization does that sound like?

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” - Henry Ford

“Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be.” - John Wooden

“Don’t bury your failures, let them inspire you.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” - Bill Gates

"It certainly wasn't a failure." 

- Joe Conti, about the failed wine kiosk program.

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill

     Then the PLCB must be an immeasurable success; 

that's all they ever do!

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." - Henry Ford

     "Intelligently" being the key word here. Of course, you have to have a Board that has some intelligence for this to work.

"Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure." - James Altucher

Graft, collusion, nepotism, lost paperwork, lying & 

destroying evidence are probably not what he's talking about.

"You have to be able to accept failure to get better." - LeBron James

Joe Conti, again: "It certainly wasn't a failure." Yeah, Joe: it was.

"Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive." - Andy Grove

Isn't that right, Charlie "40 Years At The PLCB" Mooney?

"Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure." - John C. Maxwell

And when you have all of the above -- plus $1.9 billion in liabilities -- 
you have the PLCB.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes. Tom Cochrane
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"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day." - Jim Rohn

"If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing." - Mark Cuban

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles. Jawaharlal Nehru
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One more time: "It certainly wasn't a failure."

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure. James Altucher
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/failure

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/failure

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/failure