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"I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business."

"Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you."

"Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent."

"The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions."

"When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality."

"The nonessential employees, the type of workers whom remain at home when it snows, are the quickest to complain about how the talented persons of an organization behave."
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"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."

"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."

"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."

"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."

"I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life."

"Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races."

"You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you."

"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."
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