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"The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with."
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"Perfect was my only option."

"The key to finding financial freedom is to unlock your entrepreneurial intelligence, work your network and lead the time."

"The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such."

"Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity."

"Things that you have remained 'sincere' to, those many things you have won. The world has to be won; only then will it let you go to moksha!"

"I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars."
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"I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there."


"To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death."


"I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much."


"Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart."


"Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not."


"I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me."
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