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My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
Ted Turner
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Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Lord Acton
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Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard Aiken
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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey
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The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein
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Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
Isaac Asimov
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty
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One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold H. Glasow
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The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Benjamin Jowett
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Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs
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The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
Michael Korda
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A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
Steve Jobs
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Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?
Steve Jobs
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs
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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs
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I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
Steve Jobs
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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
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To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
Steve Jobs
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Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?
Steve Jobs
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
J. Paul Getty
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
J. Paul Getty
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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty
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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
J. Paul Getty
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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
J. Paul Getty
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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
J. Paul Getty
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No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist.
J. Paul Getty
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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
J. Paul Getty
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
J. Paul Getty
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
J. Paul Getty
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A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Warren Buffett
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren Buffett
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
Warren Buffett
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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Warren Buffett
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett
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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Warren Buffett
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Warren Buffett
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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
Warren Buffett
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett
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Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Warren Buffett
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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Warren Buffett
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren Buffett
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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Warren Buffett
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
Warren Buffett
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no "y" in it.
Warren Buffett
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren Buffett
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Warren Buffett
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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
Warren Buffett
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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
Warren Buffett
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett
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When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Warren Buffett
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Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful".
Warren Buffett
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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
Warren Buffett
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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
Warren Buffett
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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Warren Buffett
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Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.
Warren Buffett
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A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Henry Ford
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A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
Henry Ford
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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Henry Ford
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Henry Ford
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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford
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Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.
Henry Ford
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Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Henry Ford
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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Henry Ford
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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
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I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
Henry Ford
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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
Henry Ford
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If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford
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If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
Henry Ford
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If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
Henry Ford
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It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Henry Ford
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It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford
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Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
Henry Ford
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Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Henry Ford
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't.
Henry Ford
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There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
Henry Ford
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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Henry Ford
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What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
Henry Ford
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Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin
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Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
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He that rises late must trot all day.
Benjamin Franklin
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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Benjamin Franklin
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I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin Franklin
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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin Franklin
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Industry need not wish.
Benjamin Franklin
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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin Franklin
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It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Benjamin Franklin
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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Benjamin Franklin
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Benjamin Franklin
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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide.
Benjamin Franklin
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Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Benjamin Franklin
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Three can keep a secret if two are dead.
Benjamin Franklin
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To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin Franklin
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin
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Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin
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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin Franklin
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
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You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Benjamin Franklin
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There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
Dale Carnegie
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
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Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Bill Gates
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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
J. P. Morgan
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I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
T. Boone Pickens
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
John D. Rockefeller
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It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.
Henry Kravis
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Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
Ray Kroc
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Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
Peter Drucker
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True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill
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This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Winston Churchill
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There is no such thing as a good tax.
Winston Churchill
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There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
Winston Churchill
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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston Churchill
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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
Winston Churchill
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No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
Winston Churchill
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Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Winston Churchill
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My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
Winston Churchill
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Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
Winston Churchill
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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill
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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Winston Churchill
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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill
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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
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The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people's money.
Margaret Thatcher
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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan
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As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill Gates
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At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
Bill Gates
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Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Bill Gates
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I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
Bill Gates
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I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Bill Gates
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I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates
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I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
Bill Gates
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If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
Bill Gates
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If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Bill Gates
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If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Bill Gates
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In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
Bill Gates
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Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody an talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill Gates
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Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Bill Gates
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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates
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Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Bill Gates
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Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
Bill Gates
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Life is not fair; get used to it.
Bill Gates
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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters
Bill Gates
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The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates
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The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Bill Gates
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We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Bill Gates
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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it
Ronald Reagan
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It's a lot better to have a goose that keeps laying eggs than a goose that just sits there and eats insurance and storage and a few things like that. The idea of digging something up out of the ground, you know, in South Africa or someplace and then transporting it to the United States and putting into the ground, you know, in the Federal Reserve of New York, does not strike me as a terrific asset.
Warren Buffet (on Gold)
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If they were drowning to death, I would put a hose in their mouth.
Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's, on his business rivals
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It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
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It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
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You only know who is swimming naked when the tide goes out: as it turns out, Wall Street is a nudist beach.
Warren Buffet
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
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Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Albert Einstein
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
"; Quotation[168] = "
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
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He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein
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You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein
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