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"I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership."
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"So because you are converting it, you are grabbing back your life."
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Personal Development
"Take charge of your life and multiply it. Be in control of your life and your time."
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Personal Development
"It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them."
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Personal Development
"No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property."
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Personal Development
"The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crimes, how many wars, how many murders, how many misfortunes and horrors, would that man have saved the human species, who pulling up the stakes or filling up the ditches should have cried to his fellows: Be sure not to listen to this imposter; you are lost, if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong equally to us all, and the earth itself to nobody!"
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Personal Development
"The only person to blame for your situation is you."
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Personal Development
"You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation."
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Personal Development
"Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them."
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Personal Development
"One man told me, 'My tooth is hurting'. Why would 'your' tooth hurt you? This is considered a contradicting statement. What is yours, it will never give you pain and what is not yours will always give you pain. If you expound on this, you will have the solution!"
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Personal Development
"As long as you are the owner ('I am Chandubhai and all this is mine'), the worldly life remains. When does the ownership go away? When the wrong belief goes away."
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"I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left."
Progress
"It was a very difficult 10 years of very hard work."
Work
"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
"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
"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
"Was I believer in Enron Corporation? Yes, sir, I was."
Enron
"I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership."
Ownership
"Are the things that now, in retrospect, with what I've seen happen to my company, would I have done some things differently? I think - I think we all would do - we would do a number of things differently."
Company
"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."
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