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1217 Philanthropist Quotes

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
Able Before Best Brain
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Acquired Affairs Born Control
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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Administer Bound Community Good
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I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Argue Compromise Compromised Greater
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He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Bigot Cannot Dare Fool
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Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Basket Capital Concentrate Eggs
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Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Engage Must Push Whatever
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No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
Business Credit Get Great
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Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Approval Best Consciousness Doing
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I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

Accumulate Begin Difficult Difficult Task
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There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Class Else Money Nothing
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All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Honor Self-Inflicted Wounds All
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Aim for the highest.

Aim Highest For Motivational
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There is little success where there is little laughter.

Laughter Little There Success
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You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Any Cannot Climb He
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Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Act Because Born Day
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People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Content How Impressive Matter
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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Ability Anything Anything Else Else
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Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
Buys Grow His Morgan
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The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Communicate Connect Efficiently Facebook
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There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Believe Built Connected Everyone
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The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Any Biggest Changing Fail
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Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.

Big Figuring Focus Next
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Our philosophy is that we care about people first.
About Care First Our
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People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Comfortable Different Evolved Gotten
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When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Ends Everyone Give Giving
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We're running the company to serve more people.

Company More People Running
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I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.

About Back Business Know
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By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

Giving Making More People
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A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Africa Dying Front House
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Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.

Heard Internet Million Networks
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I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Actually Boring Computers Facebook
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I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

Always Core Desire Existed
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I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

Actually Business Easier First
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The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.
Approach Basis Build Music
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In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Company Doing Everything Else
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The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

About Know People Question
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There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

Analytic Big Camp Focused
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My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

About Actually Any Being
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Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.

Accomplish Built Company Connected
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At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships.

Build Capacity Connect Doing
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In addition to building better products, a more open world will also encourage businesses to engage with their customers directly and authentically. More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers. We expect this trend to grow as well.

Addition Also Better Building
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This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

Amaze Bets Big Cycle
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No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.

Being Come Create Done
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I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.

App Around Awesome Facebook
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I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

Alarm Blackberry Clock Me
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Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.
Closer Desktop Lot Mobile
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For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

Advantage Allowing Application Because
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The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Actually Boring Computers Facebook
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When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren't. There are pranks, IMs.

Accuse College Did Excuse
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