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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!"

"The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified."

"The most successful people in the world today are entrepreneurs."

"We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn."

"You have to learn when it's best to delegate those hard physical jobs to others while you tackle the heavy thinking."

"There are two kinds of warriors: those on the battlefield, and those in the boardroom; both are out to win. But the age of King Alexander has gone, and the age of Bill Gates has come."

"I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense."

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
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"If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things."

"Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces."

"It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes."

"A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting."

"No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well."

"There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be."

"It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today."
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