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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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"I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything."
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"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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"You want to build a big business? Start with your character."
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"If you can't fire your best friend or your brother, don't hire them."
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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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"My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground."
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"I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me."
Art
"I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts."
School
"I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class."
Class
"It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level."
Time
"Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist."
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"I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist."
Art
"Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think."
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"My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions."
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"I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world."
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