My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.


Ruth Reichl

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I never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.
BABE RUTH
All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it...
BABE RUTH
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
BABE RUTH
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
BABE RUTH
You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.
RUTH ELLIS
People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won...
RUTH RENDELL
Walden Pond? You mean like Thoreau?
RUTH SAUNDERS
Firstly, I think that now there are many young female conductors, but as it takes at least thirty ye...
RUTH REINHARDT
I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How ...
RUTH RENDELL
Liquidity is oxygen for a financial system.
RUTH PORAT
I get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then...
RUTH RENDELL
Beth Garber did very well in the No. 2 spot. Jenny Christen, in the No. 6 spot and her first time on...
RUTH PINKERTON
She's another Tina Turner is what I see,
RUTH BROWN
Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; ...
RUTH BROWN
Unfortunately, I'm a little concerned where the legends are coming from nowadays.
RUTH BROWN
And, of course, I was singing cheap.
RUTH BROWN
There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because o...
RUTH BROWN
We're at the cutting edge. The purely oral approach is newer and experimental in that it's not happe...
RUTH HUBBARD
In many ways, playing a real person is slightly easier because you have a road map. When you're ...
RUTH NEGGA
We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, th...
RUTH RENDELL
People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called ...
RUTH OZEKI
People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, no...
RUTH RENDELL
I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's n...
RUTH NEGGA
I don't know that we'll be able to sell, statewide, anything less than a five-buck limit.
CHARLES RUTH
My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times ...
RUTH RENDELL
Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950...
RUTH RENDELL
Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.
RUTH ASAWA
He's a cat's cat, he climbs trees and sits on people's roofs but now he's forced to be in the house ...
RUTH CISERO
To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oce...
RUTH BERNHARD
We really lifted that ball and there was some great intercepts to see.
RUTH AITKEN
And I can promise you that we're not going to go to the Coastal Plain and come back with a three-buc...
CHARLES RUTH
The Stanford Mansion is certainly the jewel of Sacramento, ... and we're adding it to the crown jewe...
RUTH COLEMAN
I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
BABE RUTH
Even though this pegs to 150 percent of market, the premiums are still lower or benefits more expans...
RUTH CASE
Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
RUTH GORDON
I was like the queen of the South.
RUTH BROWN
The side of his face had gone numb so he went to a dentist, but was told he should see a doctor as w...
RUTH LIGGETT
I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly...
RUTH RENDELL
If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I f...
RUTH NEGGA
When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot o...
RUTH OZEKI
For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core...
RUTH GLICK