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" You cant be afraid to take a risk. You can't be afraid to take a risk because you think you might fail. "
Linda McMahon
Fail
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You
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" I wasn't looking for a hobby. If I were looking for a hobby, it wouldn't be the United States Senate. That's one of the toughest jobs I'd probably ever do. I just felt there wasn't enough compromise going on: People were too far to the left, too far to the right, with no one trying to build a compromise. "
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" While they're in WWE, we absolutely have a health and wellness policy. I'll probably always say 'we,' even though I've resigned as the CEO. It's kind of hard to break a 30-year habit. "
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" Someone asked me recently if marriage is 50-50 - it averages out to be 50-50, but sometimes it's 75-25, sometimes it's 90-10. In the end, it has to average out to be 50-50; that's how you support each other. "
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" Being under the political spotlight is far different than anything I'd experienced before. Every word is a critical word. Sometimes you really aren't allowed to get your full thought out. A lot of it is about having a 30-second sound bite. "
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" It always is a battle for a Republican in Connecticut, even one who's a moderate like I am, and one who's an independent thinker. "
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" I think women are not as hung up on the testosterone thing. They're more collaborative. They multitask better, and I think they're more results-oriented. They just want to cut to the chase and get it done. "
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Done
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Want
" We went bankrupt one time and lost everything. When I tell that story at my Women's Leadership LIVE conferences, people are shocked. I mean, our house was auctioned off and the car repossessed in the driveway. We had to start over again. "
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Lost
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" I think it's high time that we had a woman president. But I don't want to elect someone just because she's a woman; I want the best candidate to be elected. I think that any woman who is elected to the highest office in the land would clearly have positive role model effects for other young women. "
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" When I was asked if I supported merging SBA into Commerce, I really wasn't focused on SBA or Commerce; I was focused on the concept of merging agencies, or reducing duplicative programs, so that we could reduce those costs. I am a firm believer that SBA needs to be a stand-alone agency. "
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Costs
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I Am
" I'm going to continue to talk about what is important to the people of Connecticut which is jobs, getting people back to work, the economy. "
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Talk
Work
Back
" Without truth, trust is lost. The ACA could not have been passed were it not for the repeated assertions, which proved to be false, that Americans who liked their health plans and their doctors could keep them. "
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Lost
Plans
Health
" I remember the early days when every month I had to decide whether I should continue to lease a typewriter or if I could finally afford to buy it. Yes, that $12 a month really made a difference in our budget. "
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Remember
Month
Early
" My number one philosophy for leadership is leadership by example. If you are not willing to do it yourself, how can you show others how to do it? "
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Leadership
Philosophy
You
" Truly landmark pieces of legislation - including the Social Security Act, Medicare, and the Kennedy and Reagan tax reductions - historically have garnered strong support from both parties. The ACA did not. "
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Security
Strong
Social
" I have said from the beginning, I would spend what it would take for the people of Connecticut to know who I am and what I stand for. "
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I Am
Know
People
" It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others. "
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Television
Acting
Better
" I was a tomboy. And one of my first recollections of great success was playing baseball with the boys. "
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Baseball
Success
Playing
" I've made a payroll. I know what it's like to execute a business plan. I know what it's like to expect the proper return on investment... and I know you can't spend your way out of debt. "
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" Small business people are people with goals and values that can't be calculated on a profit and loss statement. "
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Business
Goals
Small
" Optimism is the ultimate definition of a leader. A leader has to look optimistically at what is ahead while not ignoring the challenges that must be overcome. Those challenges are in government, politics, world leadership, and even in community life. "
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" As a CEO, I want to show women that there are no limits to what they can achieve, whether through entrepreneurship, government, science or any path they choose, and there is plenty of room for women at the top. "
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Limits
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Science
" I never really thought about the fact that there weren't female role models, because I had them in my life. The women I knew in my life were so strong. "
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Strong
My Life
Life
" You have to think about the WWE as soap operas. "
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Soap
Operas
About
" I certainly think you could look at the business side of how WWE was run, which was as a conservative company with little debt and strong cash balance. "
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Business
Think
Strong
" We want to create more jobs. We want to qualify more lenders and expand lending markets. But also, I want a very different SBA - it's not your father's SBA. I want to modernize it and reposition it so when people think about jobs, they think about how the Small Business Administration would really be helpful. "
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Think
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Small
" I have kids in high school that don't know how to balance a checkbook. We need to have that fundamental understanding of economics as we move forward to develop the next generation of young people. "
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High School
People
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" My parents' greatest wish was that I graduated from college. Neither of my parents had a college education, and they really wanted me to have one. "
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" I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - would I consider that. So let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage. I did not say that and that is not something I would consider. "
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" Like all small-business owners, I know what it's like to take a risk on an idea, manage cash flow, navigate regulations and tax laws, and create jobs. "
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