"Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness."
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"If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing."
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"The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective."
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"When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever."
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"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."
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"It’s better to make a decision, even the wrong one, than to be in limbo."
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"Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities."
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"Always start at the end before you begin. Professional investors always have an exit strategy before they invest. Knowing your exit strategy is an important investment fundamental."
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"Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing."
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"The moment you make passive income and portfolio income a part of your life, your life will change. Those words will become flesh."
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"When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want."
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"This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father."
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"Dont count the things you do, do the things that count."
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"Success doesn't make you and failure doesn't break you."
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"In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen."
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"A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure."
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"Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season."
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"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness - these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. . . . reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles."
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"Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive."
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"You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together."
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