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" When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life. "

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" Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you're going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they're not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals. "

" Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people. "

" Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs. "

" Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities. "

" 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

" The movie I'm really excited about that I had really fun doing is 'Feed the Dog.' It's with Nat Wolff and Selena Gomez. It's really fun. It's raunchy, like 'Superbad' meets 'Risky Business,' kind of. I got to be a really fun character, an out-there Mrs. Robinson-type character. I get to seduce Nat. "

" As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business. "

" You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings. "

" Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close. "

" Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business. "

S. Truett Cathy

" If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable. "

" Commercial books don't even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a lot of stuff that nobody cares about. Imagine if the movie pages covered none of the big movies and all they covered were movies that you couldn't even find in the theater? "

James Patterson

" There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it. "

Marc Andreessen

" 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. "

" Content marketing is one of the most effective ways to promote your business online - but only when it's done right. "

" The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution. "

Kenneth Frazier

" If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something. "

" The essence of my way of doing business is to not accept the traditional way things are done. "

Robert Stigwood

" Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. "

" When you build a product, you make a lot of assumptions about the state of the art of technology, the best business practices, and potential customer usage/behavior. "

Steven Sinofsky

" My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss. "

Barbara Corcoran

" We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true. "

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

" Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. "

" Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success. "

Cyrus McCormick

" One of the most important tasks as a leader in a startup is to pick the right metric to track. This is often referred to as the 'compass metric' because it will be your compass for growth. It's important to note that 'compass metrics' will likely change over the lifetime of a business. "

" Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. "

" The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip. "

" The golf facet of my life doesn't go with the rest of my life, which is a rough-and-tumble life. I work in real estate development, which is the toughest business, and I do it in the toughest city. I deal with ruthless people. "

" 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

" It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. "