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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Career Disappears Either Else
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The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.
Ever Football Football Player Only
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All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Difficult Difficult Things Easy Great
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So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I'll say, 'That's right, keep the same haircut for ten years.' How fun is that?

Always Buddies Conservative Fun
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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Cook Fish Govern Great
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Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that's never been me.

All Day Been Maybe Me
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When I'm out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I'm doing.

Confidence Doing Field Football
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Always Paradoxical Truth Words
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We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

Bottom Business Expect Impact
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The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

About App Appliances Bulb
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What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.

Actually Buy Consumerism Getting
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The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

Approaching Bank Convince Evil
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I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

Always Been Computers Intersection
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You want your customers to value your service.

Customers Service Value Want
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The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

Asked Business Common Equally
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I'm a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they're simpler for customers.

Because Big Customers Fan
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Part of company culture is path-dependent - it's the lessons you learn along the way.

Along Company Culture Learn
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If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

Being Competitor Doing More
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Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

Capital Directly Greater Higher
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I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

Box Constraints Drives Frugality
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I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.

Bunch Category Devices Different
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The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

Book Container Create Itself
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I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

Novel Skeptical Will
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I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.
Also Camera Dedicated Digital
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Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

Actual Actually Always Amount
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On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.

Before Big Businesses Characterized
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Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.

Cost Estate Key Location
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The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.

Best Call Customer Just
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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Back Become Brothers Brothers And Sisters
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I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

Physics Princeton Specifically Study
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Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Make Mediocre Other People
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There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Always Discovery Involved Serendipity
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

Acting Always Being Fulfilled
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Almost Create Disadvantage Every
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I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Advertiser Any Mission Skeptical
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I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

Because Behalf Customers Experiment
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What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

Against Always Around Because
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If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

Aging Base Become Constantly
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Beautiful speech doesn't need protection, it's ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don't have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it.

Allow Beautiful Cultural Dinner
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

Affliction Brood Cherish Consider
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When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure the hard way. I'm using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space.

Building Dynamic Entrepreneurial Explosion
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

About Communion Contact Dignity
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I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.

Further Gigantic Little Lottery
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

Always Among Away Clouds
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Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

Always Continue Find Habit
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I read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system.

Civilization Clear Expanding Frontier
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When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people - for a long time, anyway - are going to want to abandon Earth altogether.

Abandon Altogether Anyway Back
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There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
Jealousy Never Regard Strong
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The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.

Commercial Enterprise Government Improving
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No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it's government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

About Ask Change Forget
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