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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Thomas Paine
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In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.
Bernard Arnault
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The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
D'Angelo
Art
Balance
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Crazy
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The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful.
D'Angelo
Careful
Colors
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Lights
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu
Begin
Difficult
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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu
Despise
Did
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After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts.
Tom Brady
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
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Deeply
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Lao Tzu
Enlightenment
Knowing
Others
Wisdom
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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao Tzu
Compare
Compete
Content
Everybody
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The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Lao Tzu
Avoid
Cannot
Cast
Covet
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Tom Brady
Beating
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Times
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Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu
Great
Silence
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Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
Blunt
Bowl
Brim
Fill
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Lao Tzu
Anything
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Goose
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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.
Jeff Bezos
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There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
Jeff Bezos
Backward
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Customers
Determine
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Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
Jeff Bezos
Hang
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You want your customers to value your service.
Jeff Bezos
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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.
Jeff Bezos
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If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
Jeff Bezos
Advance
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Away
Company
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Washington Irving
Ability
Blaming
Down
Easiest
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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
Princess Diana
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The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.
Jeff Bezos
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Book
Key
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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Washington Irving
Adversity
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
Washington Irving
Hero
His
Idol
Our
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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.
Jeff Bezos
Aging
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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.
Jeff Bezos
Allow
Beautiful
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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.
Jeff Bezos
Building
Dynamic
Entrepreneurial
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You know you're not anonymous on our site. We're greeting you by name, showing you past purchases, to the degree that you can arrange to have transparency combined with an explanation of what the consumer benefit is.
Jeff Bezos
Anonymous
Arrange
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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
Washington Irving
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Because
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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.
Jeff Bezos
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.
Jeff Bezos
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We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we'll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.
Jeff Bezos
Build
Humans
Interesting
Live
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Our motto at Blue Origin is 'Gradatim Ferociter': 'Step by Step, Ferociously.'
Jeff Bezos
Blue
Motto
Origin
Our
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You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn't in place.
Jeff Bezos
Cannot
Company
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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.
Jeff Bezos
About
Ask
Change
Forget
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Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There's nothing wrong with that. But it's more than that. It's essential for your children and your children's children.
Jeff Bezos
Children
Course
Essential
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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
Washington Irving
Community
Continually
Ears
Ever
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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
Washington Irving
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I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!
Washington Irving
Emotional
Had
You
Your
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I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.
Sam Elliott
About
Being
Dad
Four
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Thomas Carlyle
Honest
Honest Man
Less
Make
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
Business
Clearly
Distance
Hand
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Thomas Carlyle
Bad
Bad Times
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Fortune
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle
Accomplishment
Achieve
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I was in the cement end of the construction business, as a laborer. I was pouring concrete, and stripping forms off of set concrete, and pulling nails, and stacking plywood, and doing that kind of thing. I was in peak condition in those days.
Sam Elliott
Business
Cement
Concrete
Condition
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Thomas Carlyle
Constantly
Originality
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Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not.
Tom Brady
American
American Culture
Culture
Fence
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