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" Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business. "

Christopher Lasch

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" We'll have a sales leader go run engineering. A lawyer go run business development. A business development leader go run our consumer operations. We're going to train a generalist group of leaders who know how to learn and operate in collaboration teamwork. I think that's the future of leadership. "

John T. Chambers

" Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. "

Abraham Lincoln

" We are not trying to prevent new clean energy businesses from succeeding. Any business that's economical, that can succeed in the marketplace, any form of energy, we're all for. As a matter of fact, we're investing in quite a number of them, ourselves - whether that's ethanol, renewable fuel oil. "

" There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men. "

" Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric. "

" Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend. "

William Whipple

" For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures. "

" Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. "

" How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know? "

" In my business, you should be very strong in mind. You have to be sure about yourself and about your work and your career, and you have to be strong inside because so many people come around and try to say bad things about you. "

" If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business. "

" Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance. "

" Globalisation must have, as a critical component, international dispensation in the locality of U.N. institutions. It cannot be, and must not be, business as usual in the establishment and location of international institutions, especially of the United Nations. "

Anthony Carmona

" The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually gets up to together over a lifetime has much more in common with the workings of a small business. They must draw up work rosters, clean, chauffeur, cook, fix, throw away, mind, hire, fire, reconcile, and budget. "

Alain de Botton

" I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker. "

" The seminal elements of what makes a story great - challenge, struggle, resolution - are the same whether we're talking about story content for a movie such as 'Rain Man,' or telling a purposeful story to forge new business relationships or conclude a fruitful transaction, such as acquiring an NBA franchise. "

" It's been many years that I've been in this business. All of a sudden, I'm getting all of these wonderful people approaching me and asking me to work with them. It's very hard to say no when you love and respect people. "

" The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job. "

Kenneth Langone

" In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself. "

Bernard Arnault

" I just think my life's been really blessed, because being in show business, I've met wonderful people, and I've traveled all over the world. "

Debbie Reynolds

" The conservative revival cannot be dismissed. "

Christopher Lasch

" A manager doesn't hear the cheers. "

" Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success. "

Thomas J. Stanley

" Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. "

Thomas J. Watson

" No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business. "

" I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles. "

" The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor. "

" Diversity is critical to our business outcomes. "

" I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer. "

" We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. "