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Quotes by Businessman
"The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself."
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"The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went."
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"My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one."
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"You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure."
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"And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms."
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"The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges."
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"And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California."
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"Right now the long-term investors are telling us that they're not as concerned about inflation and so we're seeing these rates now move into the marketplace and out to the street - rates that individuals can get."
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"Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life."
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"The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison."
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"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
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"Don't turn a blind eye to those that empathize; that care when no one else does, because it could lead to a very satisfying and meaningful relationship, with profound levels of loyalty."
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"Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away."
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"And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise."
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"A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment."
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"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world."
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"Do you know how many plastic surgeries are done to the actors and actresses in Hollywood?"
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"Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron."
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"I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world."
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"A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought."
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"It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require."
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"With out passion you dont have energy, with out energy you have nothing."
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"Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life."
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"All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer."
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"If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants."
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"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
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"There are no ugly women, only lazy ones."
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"We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved."
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"I have a policy that I get to spend as much on myself as I give away."
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"Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected."
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"There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it."
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"Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president. I think what's happening to this country is unbelievably bad. We're no longer a respected country."
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"Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it."
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"A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known."
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"I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years."
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"Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles."
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"Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving."
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"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes."
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"In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side."
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"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX."
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"Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going."
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"A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important."
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"The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter on quarter, and expenses came down. We threw off over $300 million in cash. All of those were in the right direction. So I think we're on our way."
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"Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with."
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"A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large."
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"Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as "uncertain" is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy."
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