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Robert Kiyosaki Businessman, Author
People

"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?"

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Robert Kiyosaki Businessman, Author
People

"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"

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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker
People

"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."

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Robin Williams Actor, Comedian
People

"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."

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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
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."

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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
People

"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."

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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
People

"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."

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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
People

"Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure."

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Sun Ra Musician
People

"I always say it's not my Arkestra, it belongs to some other force which wants certain things, to reach people."

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Susan Cain Author, Speaker
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."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
People

"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."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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."

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Russell Baker Writer
People

"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."

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