"The primary difference between rich people and poor people is how they handle fear"
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"If your business is to grow and prosper, as a leader, you need to focus on people development."
"Most people try to get rich by being cheap and the price for that is that you live cheap and there is so much money out there; why would you want to live cheap?"
"Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets."
"The thing most people don't pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It's 24/7."
"For most people, the price for security is personal freedom. And without freedom, many people spend their lives working for money, rather than living out to their dreams"
"Dreamers dream dreams and rich people create plans and build bridges to their dreams."
"The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth."
"You try to come up with new ideas, but in the end, people just want to eat Italian food."
"I was in Iraq, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Bahrain. The first year I went pretty much by myself. Then I went with General [Richard] Myers, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The shows and audiences were amazing. You'll never get a better group of people."
"Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them."
"We've had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren't going to lay off people, that we'd taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place; the last thing we were going to do is lay them off."
"We hire people who want to make the best things in the world."
"The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about."
"Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure."
"I always say it's not my Arkestra, it belongs to some other force which wants certain things, to reach people."
"It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world."
"Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people."
"I am persuaded that a leader is not made in one life. He has to be born for it. For the difficulty is not in organisation and making plans; the test, the real test, of the leader, lies in holding widely different people together along the line of their common sympathies. And this can only be done unconsciously, never by trying."
"Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply."