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"When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business."
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"Business is the salt of life."
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"Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money."
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"Asking the appropriate questions means understanding exactly what your customer is trying to achieve."
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"Tell your good news as an evangelist would. Do so with a passion driven by a need to help and solve problems that some people didn't even know they had."
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"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours."
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"Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off."
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"Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives."
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"The only way to make a great product is to make a product that people want."
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"It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."
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"Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry."
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"It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it."
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"I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up."
School
"My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight."
Goal
"It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public."
Idea
"In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures."
Architecture
"A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time."
Time
"The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning."
Life
"You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art."
Art
"Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think."
Age
"My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar."
Father
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