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"By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway."
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"I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything."
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Personal Development
"We prefer to be around others who bring out the best in us and make us feel good, don't we? Customers want to do business with people who make them feel valued, appreciated, and happy."
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Personal Development
"You want to build a big business? Start with your character."
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"Project your "brand to be remarkable and memorable. Whether through a positioning statement, product placement, advertising campaign, service, a logo, mission, or message, your brand is what makes you and/or your company remarkable-or not."
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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!"
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"If anyone rises to power, it's not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many with apparent means to take it failed simply because they weren't destined for the honor."
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"Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?"
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"I figure anything over 13 weeks in this business is pretty good."
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"An intelligent organization is not about the "cleverness of one analytics team but the insightful nature of the entire business."
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"Being an entrepreneur is the greatest investment."
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"One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing."
Classroom
"If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience."
Living
"I'm a very, very stubborn man."
Man
"Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz."
Jazz
"I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician."
Jazz
"If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world."
Music
"Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time."
Time
"There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians."
Help
"Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song."
Country
"By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway."
Business
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