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"Keep your money in the first place. Let`s make our companies competitive and let`s make good business decisions dominate their decision making, not what`s good for Washington carve outs."
"I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first."
"If you want to understand love, first learn about freedom."
"The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time. The second indication of the death of our dreams is certainty. The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace."
"Its best to live as if it were the first and last day of my life."
"Marrying the first person who offers you a decent position in society. Love can wait."
"For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four."
"Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions."
"The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive."
"Keep my word' is such a strange expression. At first glance, it just means 'Be true to what you agreed on. But it could also mean, 'Hold your words back.' Keep them in. Let your actions speak instead."
"Let's hope the first comes first."
"Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses."
"After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered."
"Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades."
"Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing."
"Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good."
"At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it."
"Plot comes first. The plot is the archictecture of your novel. You wouldn't build a house without a plan. If I wrote without a plot, it would just be a pile of bricks. Characters are your servants. They must serve your plot."
"I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets."
"And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again."
