"Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press"
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"In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes."
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"If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting."
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"All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing."
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"It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do."
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"My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future."
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"My mentor said, 'Let's go do it', not 'You go do it'. How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!'"
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"Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does."
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"Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating."
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"In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions."
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"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."
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"Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you."
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"Learn to sell. In business you’re always selling: to your prospects, investors and employees. To be the best salesperson put yourself in the shoes of the person to whom you’re selling. Don’t sell your product. Solve their problems."
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"We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place."
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"If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time."
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"You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ."
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"When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, "I'm right, and everyone else is wrong." That's a very unpleasant position to be in. It's at once exhilarating and at the same time an invitation to be attacked."
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"A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities."
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"There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can."
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"If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends."
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