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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
Running

"I'm a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don't even have a secretary. And contrary to some of the stereotypes, entrepreneurs are not loners. I am."

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"As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee."

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
Running

"You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love."

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
Running

"The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations."

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Elmer Davis Journalist
Running

"We have got to defeat this attack on the freedom of the mind...But it takes courage for a young man with a family to stand up to it; all the more obligation on those of us who have nothing left to lose. At any age it is better to be a dead lion than a living dog - though better still, of course, to be a living and victorious lion - but it is easier to run the risk of being killed (or fired) in action if before long you are going to be dead anyway. This freedom seems to me the chief consolation of old age."

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Erma Bombeck Humorist, Writer
Running

"When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911."

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Dana Gould Comedian
Running

"The more women walk around in sweat pants, the harder it is to tell who's out jogging and who's running away from a mugger."

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Bear Bryant Football Coach
Running

"I left Texas A&M because my school called me. Mama called, and when Mama calls, then you just have to come running."

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Denis Waitley Author, Motivational Speaker
Running

"Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run."

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Diana Rigg Actress
Running

"The thing I absolutely hate is when directors don't know what they want, and then they ask you to do it this way, and then maybe that way, and maybe that way, because they haven't made up their minds what they want. So you're running around in circles trying to give them what they want."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
Running

"Some say that I'm their favorite, but I aint hearing none of that. I'm about my team, hoe, Young Money running back"

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Charles Taylor Philosopher
Running

"What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations."

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Charlie Munger Investor, Businessman
Running

"Like the stocks of both Berkshire and Wesco to trade within hailing distance of what we think of as intrinsic value. When it runs up, we try to talk it down. That's not at all common in Corporate America, but that's the way we act."

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