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" I discovered a long time ago that if I focus on doing the right thing for the long term to improve the lives of consumers and customers all over the world, the business results will come. "

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" Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies. "

" You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient. "

" I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself. "

" If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty. "

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" Leading businesses are making large strides in ensuring a sustainable future, but ultimately, they can only do so much. "

" The rigor and discipline we use in running our business is key to consistently executing our growth strategy. And we systematically applied the same discipline to our investments, including acquisitions. "

" Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. "

" I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example. "

" My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did. "

" There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change? "

" 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. "

" I wanted to be a priest. I could have done that. I wanted to be a doctor. I could have done that. Circumstances didn't lead me to it, so my fallback option was business. I wasn't really motivated to this. "

" There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. "

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" I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two. "

" Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business... challenges that only seem to be growing for today's entrepreneurs. "

" Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your business. "

" The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. "

" When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. "

" If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant; the labels are useless, except perhaps to agents and managers and lawyers, who use these labels to conduct business deals. "

" The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face. "

" If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business. "

" Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it. "

" Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers. "

" In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete. "

" As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work. "

" Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left. "

" Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver. "

" It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. "

" We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. "

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