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No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
Remember you're not entitled to anything. You have to earn your success every day, and you will make mistakes like everyone else.
In the digital world, he who hesitates is abandoned. So you have to generate 3-D excitement with as many devices as you can find.
When I think back kind of on starting my career, the last place I thought I would be would be spending a lot of time in Brooklyn.
Many in the media reported that I said Papa John's is going to close stores and cut jobs because of Obamacare. I never said that.
Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success.
Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant.
We don't have to be perfect today. We don't have to be better than someone else. All we have to do is to be the very best we can.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bears His name. He stands at its head and directs it through His chosen prophets.
If we can get everybody working or as many as we can, you would be amazed at how many of our problems will disintegrate, go away.
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.
If you are active online or texting, there is a good chance I could look at what you do and know more about you than your family.
Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
GoPro is ideal for pro-active capture, meaning, 'Hey, we're going to do something fun, and we're going to capture a video of it.'
Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.
Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor.
In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.
I don't think there's anyone who can be unaware of the relevance of Kate Moss, the effect that she's had on the fashion industry.
I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions.
I have two or three cars that I like, but today, Ferrari would be the best car I have driven in terms of being an impressive car.
I would say that I'm blessed with a very, very good executive team that operates, reasonably autonomously, each of the companies.
The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.
We believe a truly new kind of game entertainment will not be realized unless there is a new way to connect a player to his game.
You can do anything you want to do. You have to work hard, you have to create your own luck, and you have to have some luck also.
You balance sport and business by having a sustainable model for a club and by winning. Because winning makes people feel better.
Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.
I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.
There are people who look at the rules and find ways to structure around them. The more complex the rules, the more opportunities.
The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.
By the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.
I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.
With some exceptions, the wrong people are running U.S. companies. It's been that way for years, and it hasn't gotten much better.
The cost of taxpayer compliance with [the tax code] is over $80 billion per year, more than eight times the cost of the IRS budget
When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity.
Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.
Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.
To imagine a better life for yourself and your family and to leave behind all that is familiar requires a special kind of courage.
Steven Barnes is uniquely powerful in helping others balance their physica and emotional arenas along a path of unifying purpose.”
Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.
Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.
Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.
The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take care of itself.
The American crow is at an all-time low of 82 birds. Others hit by the West Nile, like the black-capped chickadee, have rebounded.
Be a sponge. Spend as much time as possible with people who truly know their craft and be a great listener. That is how you learn.
The iPod is a perfect example of Steve's [Jobs] methodology of starting with the user and looking at the entire end-to-end system.
The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.
If we seek things that are virtuous and lovely, we surely will find them. Conversely, if we seek for evil, we will find that also.
There's no great mystery to satisfying your customers. Build them a quality product and treat them with respect. It's that simple.
Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.