"I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will."
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"Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business."
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"Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved."
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"It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not."
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"The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends."
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"By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings."
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"Our favorite holding period is forever."
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"When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude."
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"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."
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"At the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the most unsparing exposure of, the politician who betrays his trust, of the big business man who makes or spends his fortune in illegitimate or corrupt ways. There should be a resolute effort to hunt every such man out of the position he has disgraced. Expose the crime, and hunt down the criminal; but remember that even in the case of crime, if it is attacked in sensational, lurid, and untruthful fashion, the attack may do more damage to the public mind than the crime itself."
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"There's a way to do it better - find it."
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"Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that's why more money doesn't make you rich - assets make you rich."
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"Let's say you have $1,000,000 tied up in your little company and suddenly your advertising isn't working and sales are going down. And everything depends on it. Your future depends on it, your family's future depends on it, other people's families depend on it. Now, what do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the goddamned sales curve stop moving down and start moving up?"
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"There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction."
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"No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich."
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"You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well."
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"The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all."
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"You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year."
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"When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business."
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"Like squirrels, the best in every business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilities - they flat out trust their skills, which is why we call this high-performance state of mind the "Trusting Mindset.""
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