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"I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business."

"Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you."

"Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent."

"The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions."

"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."

"You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other."
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"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm."


"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work."


"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself."


"Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops."


"Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops."


"If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good."


"Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time."


"Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new."
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