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"There are companies that are good at improving what they're already doing. There are companies that are good at extending what they're doing. And finally there are companies that are good at innovation. Every large company has to be able to do all three - improve, extend, and innovate - simultaneously."
"Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land."
"There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed."
"The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you ... We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right."
"You've got to really be able to accept the rejection."
"If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'."
"Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire"
"Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them."
"Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action."
"I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA."
"He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later."
"It's great to be able to pretend you're tough but funny at the same time."
"Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are."
"I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness."
"That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience."
"Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it."
"What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone's health. It's not only a feeling that I'm worth something, but that I have something to contribute."
"We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant."
"With "Let's Dance," there was actually a chance that I was actually going to be able to keep the money I had made."
"I wonder if, as a society, we will ever be able to call someone a jive tofurkey."
