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The Getty family is thrilled to resume control of Getty Images, a business that bears our name and one we strongly believe in.
I know I should not be a hindrance to SoftBank's future growth and that I need to pass on the baton to the younger generation.
One of the weaknesses of the company now is it is a bit cheap and cheerful and overly nasty, and that reflects my personality.
Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.
I don't believe that laws against things that people do regularly, like safe and responsible use of marijuana, make any sense.
Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald's. Everything else was secondary for me.
I really don't retain information - by the time I arrive wherever I'm going, I already forget what it is that I wanted to say.
Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
If you could find a major city that actually had a functioning, good public school system, you should buy all the real estate.
Cold calling is about developing social skills and getting used to rejection. We are constantly selling something to somebody.
Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.
The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.
I wish there were easy answers to people's health questions. There aren't. There are answers, all right, but they are not easy.
A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.
You can't worry about the mistakes, because you're going to make a lot of them. You've got to be thinking about your next move.
I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.
The team comes first. We want to keep all of our players. We want to take care of all of our players, but the team comes first.
My feelings on homosexuality are unequivocal. I have absolutely no problem with it whatsoever. My only reservation is marriage.
If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.
If there is wrong, you don't say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately.
All of our policies are based on whether it will make - enable people to improve their lives or it will make their lives worse.
I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.
I can't stand callow amateurs who aren't sufficiently interested in the craft of advertising to assume the posture of students.
I'd like to be remembered, as a copywriter who had some big ideas. That's what the advertising business is all about. Big ideas
What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.
As a child I learned what it meant to be persecuted. But, even then, at the worst of times, I knew there was good in the world.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Life is series of opportunities. The often neglected fact of life is that opportunities multiply as you take advantage of them.
The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.
All money represents theft… To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is true.
It's suddenly practical to do very high quality video wirelessly over mobile devices, and we're just in the early days of that.
Please do not lose hope in the Savior and His love for you. It is constant. He promised that He would not leave us comfortless.
My beloved Elisa, my companion and wife, whom I love and revere, is one of the most noble of our Heavenly Father's handmaidens.
I consider myself a significant supporter of any candidate I work for, and I am certainly generous, I think, with my own funds.
They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow.
I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me.
No one stopped buying I.B.M. because Tom Watson wasn't there, but they stopped buying Elizabeth Arden because she wasn't there.
People say the customer is always right, but you know what - they're not. Sometimes they are wrong and they need to be told so.
In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.
In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate.
If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.
If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.
Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.
It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.
I'd like to be clear that a number of people find me intolerable, and they don't hesitate to say so - which they and I cherish.
I think the relationship between the USA and Russia is too important. And it's too important to not find a way to move forward.
We can use laws to prosecute and make people think twice before going to do something like blowing up Buddhas and other things.
The job of senior management is to cultivate an environment where store managers can learn from the market and from each other.