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" When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. "

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" The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. "

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" America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger. "

Barack Obama

" If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. "

" So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year. "

" Sustainability has to be a way of life to be a way of business. "

" I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant. "

Aubrey McClendon

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" If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty. "

" Certainly in the movie business there are bullies all over - bullies in the distribution business, exhibition business, production. Fine-tuning adult bullying is different. When a bully is an adult, it's a whole different set of colors. "

" The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. "

" Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations. "

" The purpose of a business is to create a customer. "

" It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. "

" It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime. "

" The big reason why we don't have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain 'hard.' The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology. "

" 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. "

" Education is a business - the growth business. It cultivates the growth of our learners, translates the growth of new knowledge, and builds professional growth. "

" I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience. "

" I've always wanted to be in the health and wellness business. I try to encourage people to live a healthy lifestyle. "

" Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views. "

" One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you. "

" To my mind, the best investment a young man starting out in business can possibly make is to give all his time, all his energies, to work - just plain, hard work. "

" My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned - the captain earns that role; it's not because he's the coach's son. These are all things we know, but in today's world, it's not a bad idea to remind ourselves. "

" Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. "

" I probably do 10 to 12 Snapchats a day. Spending time with my family or my chef, my workouts, my outfits, or any events I'm attending. Playing music in the car is a big one for me. Dancing sometimes. Or asking people, 'How's business?' "

" Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. "

" Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show. "

" There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward. "

" Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well. "

" In tough times, one has to see if the fundamentals of the business are good or not. "

" Thanks to the competence, love of God, our country's security and stability, endowed wealth, integrated infrastructure and quality services, the U.A.E. turned into the world's renowned destination for tourism, investment and business management: the interface of choice for hosting major cultural events, artistic and sports, in the world. "

Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

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