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Quotes by Businessman
"Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind."
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"I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still had a lot to think about before I said yes. I had to consider the implications for Pixar, for my family, for my reputation. I decided that I didn't really care, because this is what I want to do. If I try my best and fail, well, I've tried my best."
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"No one is perfect and we all make mistakes, but not all of us admit to mistakes made."
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"We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace."
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"Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off."
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"I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has."
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"Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school."
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"You can never rightly judge another person's life because as a person, you only know the truth, with certainty, of your own experiences."
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"When you choose to act on your problems, you cease to be a victim of circumstance and become a force of change; that's when you transition to not only being a survivor, but to being a leader or hero too, and an inspiration to those still in the victim's mindset."
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"I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies."
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"Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year."
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"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."
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"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."
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"A life without a vision is like a kite let loose; it is directed by the forces that be, never giving even the slightest of resistance to life's pressures, eventually ending up far away from home (that comfortable place)."
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"A great many people mistake opinions for thought."
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"By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too."
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"You are that one breath. that puts all the remaining breaths. back into my body."
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"What they say doesn't matter because it can be lies, but it's what they do that matters because it always speaks truth."
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"I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter."
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"It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people."
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"I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore."
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"The whole point in moving forward is to leave things behind. Once you look back, you stop moving forward. Understanding this makes you move on easier."
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"There is somethingmystically sadand beautifulabouthowi will neversee youagainbut meet youagain and againin poetry."
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"Lack teaches you the importance of what you are lacking."
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"Not knowing what to do with your life is a painful thing."
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"In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it."
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"Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience."
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"We are always learning, we just have different teachers."
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"I wish to stay drenchedforeverin those rain-blue eyesin those...soul-reaching crystalsnot moving a musclenor breathingjustsavoringthis turquoise acheagainst my heart."
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"It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film."
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"Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle."
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"Asking why you should retaliate often solves the problem better than retaliation itself."
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"I do not wish for anyone's downfall. The world needs successful people. I just think of ways to add more value to myself, and wish that my adversaries would do the same."
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"I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself."
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"Laziness is when you accede to the misconception that work is unnecessary."
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"Look into my eyes andYou'll see my mind.A tranquil city,That rebuilt itself and left the past behind."
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"These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that."
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"I feel relieved, reborn, I'm me again.Free from heartbreak, that strong yet invisible chain,That stymied me from living again."
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"Thoughts have the power,To change how you perceive the world around you,To inflict worry, or make peace abound too."
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"Most good decisions that a person make are a result of reflection and the will to change."
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"Silence, when correctly timed, can speak multitudes of words to a person, without any extra effort on your part."
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"I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent."
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"Let your hair loose, and enjoy the breeze.Go out into the woods and sit under trees,Do whatever it takes and set your mind at ease."
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"I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig."
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"Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage."
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"If you are humble enough to admit to your flaws then you are capable of correcting them."
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