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"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious 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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"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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"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."
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"It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years."
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"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."
Parents


"Natures' curriculum cannot be changed."
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"Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's."
Mathematics


"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
Class


"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
Parents


"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
Children


"I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel."
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"Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants."
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