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"You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own."
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"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."

"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either."

"You must not make hasty decisions because they make you do what you would not have done normally."

"Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice."

"It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions."

"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."

"For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation."

"The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers."

"Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information."
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"In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved."


"The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow."


"No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude."


"I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place."


"I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on."


"There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard."


"Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality."


"I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening."
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