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"For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again."
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"I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything."
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Personal Development
"We prefer to be around others who bring out the best in us and make us feel good, don't we? Customers want to do business with people who make them feel valued, appreciated, and happy."
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Personal Development
"You want to build a big business? Start with your character."
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Personal Development
"If you can't fire your best friend or your brother, don't hire them."
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Personal Development
"Project your "brand to be remarkable and memorable. Whether through a positioning statement, product placement, advertising campaign, service, a logo, mission, or message, your brand is what makes you and/or your company remarkable-or not."
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"They call it "business" because it does not become successful by a person's "idleness". Go get busy if you want to do business; but be busy for the right reasons!"
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"If anyone rises to power, it's not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many with apparent means to take it failed simply because they weren't destined for the honor."
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"Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?"
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"I figure anything over 13 weeks in this business is pretty good."
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"A tech-savvy Board sets a right tone for shaping the culture of innovation."
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"I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow."
Hope
"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."
Literature
"Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time."
Time
"History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without."
History
"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
Influence
"I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier."
Talk
"I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem."
Talk
"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."
Poems
"The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case."
Fact
"Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?"
Work
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