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"We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building new markets, opening markets for competition, and that takes a personal toll."
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"The ultimate profit of all businesses should be happiness."
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"16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment."
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"If you have ever experienced this type of unprofessional treatment, I doubt you would even consider giving them business in the future. Interrupting, ignoring, patronizing, or antagonizing a customer is like pouring gas on a fire and creates a more explosive situation than the original complaint. Still, it continues to happen every day, costing companies millions in lost revenue."
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"My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history."
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"All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business."
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"It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business."
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"Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail."
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"For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, next then same structure sell battered furnitures, next now born as gymnasium club, next broker flea markets, only at final end of life...sell religions."
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"Agile does not mean laissez-faire, flexibility and freedom are based on the well-defined principles."
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"Redundancy is my favourite business strategy."
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"Was I believer in Enron Corporation? Yes, sir, I was."
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"It was a very difficult 10 years of very hard work."
Work
"In the fall of the year 2000, there just happened to be a decision point when they asked me to become Chief Executive Officer of the company. It was a time when, as you remember, we were starting to have some real problems in the California energy markets."
Time
"I thought the stock was a great buy. I think anybody that bought the stock in 1999 was - saw over the next couple of years a strong growth. During the year of 1999, I significantly increased my ownership of shares in the company."
Thought
"I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left."
Progress
"Well, as we built the business in the 1990's, as I said, I enjoyed that."
Business
"Larry, I spent probably most of my professional life helping to build Enron Corporation. I don't think there was anyone that was as shocked by the - by the collapse of the company as I was."
Life
"We were building a - what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing - we were changing the way the marketplace operated. We were creating a market for natural gas and electricity that had never existed before."
Thought
"We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building new markets, opening markets for competition, and that takes a personal toll."
Business
"I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership."
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