"Make sure you comfort everybody, because you have so much power. The influence you do have, make sure you use that for the right things that's going to propel you, and propel your company. It's not always about making profit. I know y'all know how to make profit, and I know that's what it's about! But I'm very happy that I can come here and tell you I'm someone that has not been driven by the profit. You can succeed with the people."
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"If you can be interested in other people you can own the world."
"Most people like to live in illusions."
"You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things."
"Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people."
"People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is."
"You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers."
"Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people."
"Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply."
"Our lives are entwined with the people over the footlights. We are a part of them."
"The best way to get along with people is not to expect them to be like you."
"Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time."
"My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim."
"I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return."
"Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it."
"I have the people behind me and the people are my strength."
"All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way."
"So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight."
"Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that."
"We're not responsible for the bustling and hustling that may go on here. Lots of people bustle, and some hustle. But that's their business, and a very old one."