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"We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices."
"People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary to get the job done."
"Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems."
"Proactive people carry their own weather with them."
"When you treat people with massive respect and kindness, amazing to me how they return your respect and kindness 100X...even though you expected zero in return."
"Companies must have a noble cause, and it's the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that it will attract the most talented people in the world to want to join it."
"A lot of time, people don't do great things becoz' great things really aren't expected of them."
"Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better."
"The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can."
"I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight."
"I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art."
"Life is so simple, really. Think through what people want, watch what others fail to give them, and provide it. Then bill'em."
"It doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property?"
"The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector."
"We've been a free people living under the law, with faith in our Maker and in our future. I've said before that the most sublime picture in American history is of George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. That image personifies a people who know that it's not enough to depend on our own courage and goodness; we must also seek help from God, our Father and Preserver."
"People's view of exotic or Asian women are changing. It's much nicer to hear 'She's pretty' than 'She's pretty - for an Asian woman."
"Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent."
"I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them."
"Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it."
"People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused."
