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"I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section."
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"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."
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Personal Development
"In the business always talk to decision makers only, it will save your time and will get you the deal."
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Personal Development
"Business is the salt of life."
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Personal Development
"Marketing is safe. Sales is risky. UNLESS, marketing has done its job. Then sales is safe too."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent."
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"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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Personal Development
"No secrecy, no business."
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"It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a regular basis. I'm not one of them. You're probably not, either."
People
"I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section."
Business
"People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia."
People
"Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist."
Being
"Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity."
Mediocrity
"Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist."
Teamwork
"The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK."
Government
"Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources."
Family
"I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful."
People
"When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice."
Business
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