"A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others."
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"If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'."
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"Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure."
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"The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom."
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"When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts."
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"Act confident, even when you're not."
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"The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world."
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"See things in the present, even if they are in the future."
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"You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want."
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"When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, "I'm right, and everyone else is wrong." That's a very unpleasant position to be in. It's at once exhilarating and at the same time an invitation to be attacked."
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"Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits."
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"When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you become uncomfortable. So deal with it. They don't know what you are going to do."
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"The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it's enormously useful in life."
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"Think of it as you want it, not as it is!"
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"I am also involved with all the acquisitions and overall strategy. Now it's true, I don't run operations. But I've never really run operations. I've never had the endurance to run sales. The whole idea of selling to the customer just isn't my personality. I'm an engineer, tell me why something isn't working or is and I am curious."
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"Five years from now, I don't know how I'll think."
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"Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence."
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"Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative."
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"Taking care of your employees is extremely important, and very, very visible."
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"I have had all the disadvantages required for success."
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