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"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."
"Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are."
"They're a damn nuisance - I've got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I left Texas A&M because my school called me. Mama called, and when Mama calls, then you just have to come running."
"I can't run. I start getting twinges. If I were filmed running, it would be awful."
"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."
"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."
"Some say that I'm their favorite, but I aint hearing none of that. I'm about my team, hoe, Young Money running back"
"People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments."
"When you give, you reveal a spiritual truth, that the flow of life never runs dry."
"all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble."
"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."
"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."