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"They call it "business" because it does not become successful by a person's "idleness". Go get busy if you want to do business; but be busy for the right reasons!"

"The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified."

"The most successful people in the world today are entrepreneurs."

"We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn."

"You have to learn when it's best to delegate those hard physical jobs to others while you tackle the heavy thinking."

"There are two kinds of warriors: those on the battlefield, and those in the boardroom; both are out to win. But the age of King Alexander has gone, and the age of Bill Gates has come."

"I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense."

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
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"There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before."

"I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."

"If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things."

"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

"The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected."

"Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing."
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