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"If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right."
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"And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in."
"A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives."
"I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century."
"And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City."
"I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about."
"From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness."
"The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper."
"You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future."
"And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you."
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"If 'pratikraman' happens immediately [as the mistake happen], then it will bring one in the state of God (Bhagwan-pad)."
"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction."
"Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes."
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