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A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.
I should not get Social Security. I think it's a travesty for a man of my success and of my means to get anything from the federal government.
Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.
Self belief will always push fear away, but you need to always practice self belief otherwise fear will come back and tap you on the shoulder.
Know your stuff. Have an angle. Know how to grow business, how to develop products, have patents and an undeveloped market that could be huge.
All TV is now digital. It's a platform ripe for innovation; we just haven't seen any beyond picture quality changes. That's a secular problem.
Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.
The magic of GoPro is that we are enabling the world to communicate in this new way, to express themselves in a new way, and it's snowballing.
To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you've made a mistake or don't know something.
I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.
I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
Andrew Saul is John Hall in a business suit. He's wrong on the war, on national security, immigration, abortion. He's Sue Kelly all over again.
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
I think there's a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
In America, we are just moving the chairs around and spending huge amounts of money rather than having them go in making people's lives better.
Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.
You either trust someone day one until they prove you wrong, or you say, 'I don't trust you until you show me I can trust you.' I'm the latter.
Chuck Liddell loves to fight. That's his passion. That's what he loves in life. But there comes a day and age - fighting is a young man's game.
When you believe in what you’re doing, that’s the first thing. And you have to be resilient, because people are going to try to knock you down.
We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.
It is probably not true to say that there was a physical homosexual relationship between [Rudolf Hess and Hitler] but the attraction was there.
It isn't the quality of the ideas you have that will determine whether you make a success of them, it's the qualities you bring to those ideas.
You cant build any kind of organization if youre not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.
When you're building a business or joining a company you have to be transparent, you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.
I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.
If television viewing choices serve as a valid measure of our society, they who choose evil surely are more numerous than they who choose good.
We took the position we wanted our people to be better than minimum wage, so we're going to pay better than minimum wage, and we still do that.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.
Working and being involved in multiple businesses and fixing things has almost turned into an addiction, but I can't seem to want to change it.
Everyday I look in the mirror and make sure I don't pinch myself so I don't wake up. I don't take it for granted. All the time I say: 'Why me?'
21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.
Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold.
I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.
Our priority in Syria, really hasn't changed. I think the President Donald Trump has been quite clear. First and foremost, we must defeat ISIS.
I've never commented much about my experience at Enron except to say, when I was there, it was a much more pipeline and asset-oriented company.
Work hard...have fun...be nice...play fair...dream big. We only get one chance at this life. If you're going to play this game, play it to win.
I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.
The digital world is one that has sort of a unique characteristic, where it's a place in which it's very easy for the value of content to fall.
I attended College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, Calif., for a year, but college wasn't for me. I was curious about life beyond Los Angeles.
The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English. Then I'd be able to charge you an upgrade fee every time I add new letters like N and T.
The government is largely influenced by people who advocate corporate welfare and advocate these policies that create this two-tiered society...
Many times I can see a solution to something differently and quicker than other people. I see the end zone and say 'This is where I want to go.'
Consumers still buy products whose advertising promises them value for money, beauty, nutrition, relief from suffering, social status and so on.
Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation.
I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?
I avoided the spotlight when I was a kid. I always knew, 'Hey, it wasn't me. I didn't do anything.' If there was a camera around, I hid from it.
I don't know if it's genetic or just because I was surrounded by it, but I was always fascinated with building and construction and development.
If I want to hand one of my old shotguns that I've had for 50 years to my grandkid one day, I have to go through a federal transfer? It's crazy.
The pushback I get is, 'He's a hedge fund guy.' Full stop. Some places, that can be a badge of honor. In others, it's almost a term of derision.
Your day usually goes the way the corners of your mouth turn. The most powerful single thing you can do to influence others is to smile at them.