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"As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money."
"Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves."
"Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker."
"Make it just like a Mac."
"To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you."
"I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will."
"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor."
"Inspiration and genius -one and the same."
"Make a decision. It doesn't have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one."
"Being an # entrepreneur is not a get-rich scheme; it takes # strength of character to keep going."
"Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day."
"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change."
"What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? It takes willingness to learn, to be able to focus, to absorb information, and to always realize that business is a 24/7 job where someone is always out there to kick your ass."
"The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way."
"There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business."
"We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can."
"Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere."
"The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today's society."
"The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications."