"Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all."
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"That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed."
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"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it."
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"Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering."
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"Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge."
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"The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament."
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"You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes."
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"For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill."
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"I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets."
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"This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock or an opportunity clock?"
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"Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success."
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"Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday."
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"It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone."
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"Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win."
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"Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness."
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"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
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"I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less"
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"Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window."
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"With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."
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"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all."
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