"Find the right people, not the best people."
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"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."
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"All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge."
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"Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character."
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"[Mickey Mouse] He popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner."
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"The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule."
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"The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that employed by more conventional investors. We disagree. We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it."
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"See things in the present, even if they are in the future."
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"You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible."
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"When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory."
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"God helps them that help themselves."
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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."
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"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?"
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"I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it at all."
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"The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services."
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"Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it."
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"An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them."
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"My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know."
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"If a business does well, the stock eventually follows."
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"I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life."
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