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"But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company."
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"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."
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"In the business always talk to decision makers only, it will save your time and will get you the deal."
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"Business is the salt of life."
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"Marketing is safe. Sales is risky. UNLESS, marketing has done its job. Then sales is safe too."
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"The nonessential employees, the type of workers whom remain at home when it snows, are the quickest to complain about how the talented persons of an organization behave."
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"The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die."
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"One of the biggest secrets of success is delegation. Exactly the method Sir Richard Branson uses! If it helped him become a billionaire businessman then it is worth utilizing in your own life/business, etc."
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"A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent."
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"The most successful businesses have leaders that see the correlation between customer service and sales. not as separate departments, but as complimentary components for growth."
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"No secrecy, no business."
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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."
Thought
"If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing."
Money
"If you have something at risk, you think differently."
Risk
"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
"But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company."
Business
"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
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