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1439 Businessman Quotes

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Authority Following Honesty Integrity
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In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

Age Better Doing Get
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There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

Companies Data Ethical Expectations
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Trust is central to an economy that works.
Central Economy Trust Works
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If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Attitude Big Changes Life
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If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.

Doing Getting Going Keep
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How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.

Christ Dies Even Ever
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If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
Business Certain One Thing Thing
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You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

Behave Out Problems Talk
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I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.

Affirm Anything Beyond Could
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If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Carefully Consider Definition Experience
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The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
Acknowledged Deepest Desire Human
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Listen with your eyes for feelings.
Eyes Feelings Listen Your
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I chose to embrace the spirit of my mother, who, though she had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred, and destroyed, she still instilled in me, her child, that I could have dreams and that I did have a responsibility and the power.

Child Chose Could Denied
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I've been talking to a lot of young people, especially here in America. I let them know that the people who they're competing with for opportunities live all over the place. They're probably not in your city, state, or country; they are hungry, and they are grinding! Some of the things that a lot of us take for granted, these people don't.

America Been City Competing
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You want be young and have fun, that's great. But while you're having fun, someone you don't see is studying and preparing. You might end up working for that person. No one wants to hear that! But I try to tell young people: You want to be the one signing the front of the check, not the back.

Back Check End Front
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I am very, very conscious of time. I always wear two watches. People ask me, 'Why do you do that?' Because I was late once,and it cost me a huge opportunity.

Always Am Ask Because
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I'm known to be aggressively early.

Early Known
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I made a decision as a five-year-old boy that my kids will know who their father is.

Boy Decision Father Kids
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I went through pain as a child so my children wouldn't have to.

Child Children Pain Through
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I have one of those old-fashioned mothers who told me every single day, 'Son, you can do or be anything that you want to do or be.' And I believed it. I bought into it 100%.

Anything Believed Bought Day
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I've said that if you're not doing something that you're passionate about, you're compromising yourself every single day.

About Compromising Day Doing
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So many men have holes in their souls the shape of their fathers. You can pass that on to your kid, or you can do something about it, and I'm seeing a lot of men doing something about it.

About Doing Fathers Holes
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I had never gone to college. I was not from a politically connected family. I had no money of my own. Who is going to do business with you?

Business College Connected Family
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I'm encouraged by what I see of men trying to be there for their children.

Children Encouraged I See Men
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Probably the hardest question I get asked is, 'How do I choose between passion and practicality?' I can't answer that. I had to do both. I was passionate about pursuing a career in financial services. But I was also passionate about feeding my child.

Between Both Career Child
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Baby steps count, too, as long as you're moving forward.

Baby Count Forward Long
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When you're doing something you're truly passionate about, there is no plan B.

About Doing Passionate Plan
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I cut grass, I did yard work, I did roofing, I cleaned basements to take care of my family.

Care Cleaned Cut Did
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I hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son.

Commitment Dearer Else Hold
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I didn't grow up in a household where dinner conversation was, 'How did the market do today?'

Conversation Did Dinner Grow
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Everything that I learned in the Navy, I took it with me into the next phase of my life.

Everything Learned Life Me
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No matter what you accomplish, when you're doing something you're truly passionate about... the opportunities are always going to be bigger.

About Accomplish Always Bigger
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My first ambition in life, I made up my mind I was going to become Miles Davis. I studied music, music theory. I played trumpet for nine years. One day, my mother explained, 'You can't be Miles Davis. There's one, and he's got that job.'

Ambition Become Davis Day
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The hardest thing that I had to do every day as a working single parent was child care, to have to leave my child with people that I did not know and hope everything was OK, that was the most painful part of every day.

Care Child Child Care Day
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Many have forged a path to greatness lit only by a vision in their minds.

Forged Greatness Lit Many
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What can we be in life? Few figures in history have answered this question with as much clarity and moral authority as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Answered Authority Clarity Dr
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Fortunately, our digital age has created some wonderful tools for finding employers and showing your strengths. But when it comes to discovering or keeping a job, nothing beats good old-fashioned face time and up-to-date skills.

Age Beats Created Digital
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Remember: If you don't schmooze, you lose. Used wisely, a bit of chitchat helps create a personal connection with your boss and colleagues.

Bit Boss Colleagues Connection
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In order for you to find a job, people need to know you're looking

Find Job Know Looking
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If you're lucky enough to have a permanent position, don't feel entitled. Companies value longtime employees' institutional memory, but to be irreplaceable, you must stay invested. Take the initiative and assume new responsibilities.

Assume Companies Employees Enough
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Most of us have heard the saying, 'Cleanliness is next to godliness.' That's a sentiment I value, but another virtue has inspired me to revise that saying. As far as I'm concerned, what's next to godliness is resourcefulness.

Another As Far As Cleanliness Concerned
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My mom had to be resourceful. She grew up dirt poor in rural Louisiana.

Dirt Grew Had Louisiana
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Your skills may not be anything out of the ordinary, but you can do miraculous things with what you've got. Maybe it's your parenting skills, or your compassion. It may be your curiosity, your imagination or unique style of fashion. Even if it seems to be no big deal, the lesson here is we all have unique abilities and talents.

Ability Anything Big Big Deal
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If you're having a hard time recognizing your gifts, look to someone else you know who's been resourceful. You may be surprised by how your own strengths rise to the surface by watching someone else.

Been Else Gifts Hard
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When someone says, 'You can't,' what it really means is that they can't - so why should you get to?

Get Means Really Says
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As long as you have a plan for how you'll live, don't let jealous people turn their insecurities into yours.

How Insecurities Jealous Live
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We can all learn something from people we admire.

Admire Learn People Something
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Just remember, you're never too old to have a hero.

Hero Just Never Old
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We can all look to our friends, family, and those we admire for inspiration.

Admire Family Friends Inspiration
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