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It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice ...

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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life it...

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...the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both not...

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A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarr...

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The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European trad...

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

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Henry Ward BeecherLife Thoughts Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher

One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

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Henry Ward BeecherLife Thoughts Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher

Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the titl...

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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth tell...

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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it...

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[Performance with purpose is] basically PepsiCo saying that companies can no longer perform and toss...

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Living like this is a full-time business.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking t...

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During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association ...

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I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simp...

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As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I wa...

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Our philosophy is that we want to be an ecosystem. Our philosophy is to empower others to sell, empo...

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I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or ...

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I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory syst...

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I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory syst...

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I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory syst...

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I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory syst...

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Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

The trust institutions have in the marketplace, the confidence customers and suppliers and workers a...

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To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the b...

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Jared DiamondCollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitud...

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Every new startup business creates new opportunities. It doesn't matter whether you have a new app f...

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I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!

Each segment of the worm is directly reproduced as a whole worm, just as each cell of the American C...

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Jean BaudrillardSimulacra and Simulation

If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot...

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The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're alwa...

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I admit my view of the world is colored by my legal and business experiences at Liberty.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It te...

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Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So...

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I've learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think yo...

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Whilst I could not think of any man whose spirit was, or needed to be, more enlarged than the spirit...

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The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'Well done'.

The truth is, truly passionate media creators don't get into the media business to make huge gains f...

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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already k...

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John D. RockefellerQuotations by John D. Rockefeller

As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the...

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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, ro...

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As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is commu...

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It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. Whenyou pay too much, you lose a litt...

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And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understan...

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Beside them, little pot-bellied men in light suits and panama hats; clean, pink men with puzzled, wo...

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Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clot...

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John SteinbeckThe Winter of Our Discontent

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the M...

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John SteinbeckThe Winter of Our Discontent

Put it this way, George,” he suggested, when he had savoured the night air for a moment. “You travel...

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Nowadays… deals are transactional rather than personal. Instead of placing your faith in a person, y...

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At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to w...

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I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I p...

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We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we car...

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Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

I got married in Florence, Italy. My husband and I were in love but totally broke, so we eloped and ...

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Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when ...

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Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.

In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cu...

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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every de...

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they...

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The name given to that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is ...

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Contagiousness is an unexpected property of all kinds of things.

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Malcolm GladwellThe Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say t...

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Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. ...

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I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of f...

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I think the private sector for the most part, the vast majority of employers in America, they wake u...

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There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. T...

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In business as well as in everything else, you're in business to spread love.  Your agency should sp...

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Marianne WilliamsonA Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business sid...

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I liked Trump's honesty because it was different and had a chance to change the business of politics...

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If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There'...

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Owning a popular sports team is very different than any other type of business. They don't throw par...

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My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a lo...

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During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business

In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not trying to im...

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I've always wanted to be in the health and wellness business. I try to encourage people to live a he...

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Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, smal...

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I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that t...

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I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't ...

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I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business book...

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There are stories — legends, really — of the “steady job.” Old-timers gather graduates around the fl...

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Last month we had to sit through a presentation on eliminating redundancy, and it was a bunch of Pow...

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She’s such a bitch,” Tina says, which I find a little contradictory, but overall quite true. “She’s ...

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Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized', the more completely it succee...

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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, ...

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The U.S. stock market was now a class system, rooted in speed, of haves and have-nots. The haves pai...

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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

I have heard Silvius, an excellent physician of Paris, say that lest the digestive faculties of the ...

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The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.