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"Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it."
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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."
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"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."
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"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."
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"All about the fucking money... money... money... thinking it's for the good for your generation... but so far it's neither and for that and neither and for that... It's mostly for the worst of your generation and other's generations."
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"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
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"It is not important how much money you gave away. It is important what good it will do on the way."
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"The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord."
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"As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it."
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"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into."
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"You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more."
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"I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even though that's probably not what I want to hear. That's what I want."
People
"So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else."
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"Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it."
Money
"As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure."
Failure
"I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money."
Money
"I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view."
Love
"The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters."
Thought
"I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street."
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"If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that's what I'd like to do and that's what I hope to do."
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"One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in."
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