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James Stockdale

"Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy."

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"Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy."

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A.E. Samaan

"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."

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A.E. Samaan

"In the business always talk to decision makers only, it will save your time and will get you the deal."

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A.E. Samaan

"Business is the salt of life."

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A.E. Samaan

"Marketing is safe. Sales is risky. UNLESS, marketing has done its job. Then sales is safe too."

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A.E. Samaan

"To me everything in business boils down to this: do you genuinely care about your customers - or just their cash?"

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A.E. Samaan

"The nonessential employees, the type of workers whom remain at home when it snows, are the quickest to complain about how the talented persons of an organization behave."

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A.E. Samaan

"The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die."

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A.E. Samaan

"One of the biggest secrets of success is delegation. Exactly the method Sir Richard Branson uses! If it helped him become a billionaire businessman then it is worth utilizing in your own life/business, etc."

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A.E. Samaan

"A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent."

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A.E. Samaan

"The most successful businesses have leaders that see the correlation between customer service and sales. not as separate departments, but as complimentary components for growth."

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James Stockdale
"They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech."

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James Stockdale
"They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf."

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James Stockdale
"But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together."

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James Stockdale
"In order to do something you must be something."

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James Stockdale
"This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character."

Friendship

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James Stockdale
"So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out."

Time

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James Stockdale
"Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots."

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James Stockdale
"We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film."

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James Stockdale
"There was nothing there but black water and American fire power."

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James Stockdale
"I think character is permanent, and issues are transient."

Character

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