"It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business."
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"The group will not prosper if the leader grabs the lion's share of the credit for the good work that has been done."
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"Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people."
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"You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success."
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"Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself"
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"Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation."
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"You’ve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize."
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"We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?"
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"I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment."
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"Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig."
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"What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing."
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"If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work."
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"With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized"
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"The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it."
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"It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties."
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"A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee."
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"The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not."
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"The rewards that will flow from a successful shift to a low carbon economy are high. Neither governments nor business can afford to let these opportunities pass them by"
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"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
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"I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together."
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