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"You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news."
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"I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender."

"One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise."

"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it."

"This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it."

"We have been a fabless semiconductor company for a number of years now."

"I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them."

"We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way."
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"Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up."


"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm."


"The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer."


"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work."


"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself."


"Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops."


"Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops."
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