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I started my career counting diamonds and schlepping gold jewelry around the world. The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.

Around Business Care Career
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If you provide enough value, then you earn the right to promote your company in order to recruit new customers. The key is to always provide value.

Always Company Customers Earn
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The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands!

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My mother taught me not to take any crap from anyone and to stand up for my rights. You might not believe this lesson came from a tiny Japanese woman, but it's true.

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I would like my kids to inherit a world where people succeed because of merit and hard work, not entitlement, and where people accept others for what they are and not try to change them.

Accept Because Change Entitlement
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A simple summary of my life is that my parents worked very hard so that I could have a great education, and I took that education and worked very hard to get where I am. I would like my kids' lives to be exactly the same.

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What I learned from my kids is that the greatest joy in life is not from material trappings, power, or visibility. The greatest joy comes from your kids. Nothing is even close to my kids in terms of bringing me joy.

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I've been all over the world meeting with companies and startups and entrepreneurs. And I tell you, they are more similar than different.

Been Companies Different Entrepreneurs
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When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.

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At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

Awareness Bare Being Beneath
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Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives.

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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

Cannot Choose Circumstances Control
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Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.

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The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.

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Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.

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When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

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You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them.

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The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.

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My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
Definition Modernism Took While
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Been Education Forgotten Learned
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Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

Anything Child Give Him
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Machines Men Problem Real
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

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If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Always Best Circumstances Failure
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

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The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.

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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.

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I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.

Bothered College Faith Freshman
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.

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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

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The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

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You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.

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I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

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Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

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Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

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The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain.

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We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.

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