"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."
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"Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death."
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"Every time you think you can’t do something... someone else thinks they can."
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"The problem with the Internet startup craze isn't that too many people are starting companies; it's that too many people aren't sticking with it. That's somewhat understandable, because there are many moments that are filled with despair and agony, when you have to fire people and cancel things and deal with very difficult situations. That's when you find out who you are and what your values are."
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"A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him."
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"If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top."
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"Forget about yourncompetitors, just focus on your customers."
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"If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then be different from your peers."
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"The opportunities that everyone cannot see are the real opportunities."
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"I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind."
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"An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission."
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"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin."
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"Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan."
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"Take away the cause, and the effect ceases."
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"Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion."
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"We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it."
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"Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation."
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"There will be sleeping enough in the grave."
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"One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It's the basics. Blocking and tackling."
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"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other."
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