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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Approve Business Conduct Conscience
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When I took over Louis Vuitton, everyone said, 'It's already so big - what more can you do?' And since then, we've multiplied that success tenfold.

Big Everyone Louis More
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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Believe Believing Consist Consists
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I would never diminish the quality of Hermes. Hermes can be an even rarer and greater quality business, if they ever wanted to work with us.

Business Diminish Ever Greater
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Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

Best Blessing Even Every
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In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.
Build Business Heritage Luxury
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The person who I admire most in business is Warren Buffett. He is a long-term investor and has brilliant ideas, and he sticks to them.

Admire Brilliant Business Ideas
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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.

Business Control Impatient Important
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You have to be just as mistrustful of straightforward rationality in business as you do of a uniquely gut approach.

Approach Business Gut Rationality
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Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, 'I am not sure at all we are in the same business.'

Advice Asked Business Jobs
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Without hesitation, I'm voting Emmanuel Macron. Everything about the campaign of Marine Le Pen, despite its dressing of sovereignty, exudes fear and weakness.

Campaign Despite Fear Dressing
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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.

Art Balance Business Crazy
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I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.

Choirs Grew Group Love
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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.

Begin Difficult Difficult Things Easy
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It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Another Better Does Duty
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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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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.

Backward Business Customers Determine
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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 strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

About Because Believe Better
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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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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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Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

Companies Great Industries Lot
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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Attend Because Business Courts
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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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I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

Like Nine Since Single-Minded
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I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.

About Actor Any Be Careful
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I've had those periods in my career when I was sitting around waiting for a phone call and had an agent who was doing the same thing rather than going out there to shake the bushes looking for a job for me. It's a frustrating game, that's the downside of this business - the rejection.

Agent Around Bushes Business
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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.

Business Clearly Distance Hand
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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Blessing Consists Felicity Fortune
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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.

Business Cement Concrete Condition
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Merit Novelty Originality Sincerity
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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

Actor Audience Author Business
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Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.

About Available Camera Carried
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I deal with this spiritual issue every day - either shooting or processing or sorting or discussing or having conversations - I'm in constant contact with it.

Constant Contact Conversations Day
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I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time.

Also Big Big Commitment Commitment
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I began working with a family camera. It was called a Kodak Autographic, which was one of those things where you flopped it open and pulled out the bellows. And I've been at it ever since; I've never stopped.

Been Began Camera Ever
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I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s.

About Became Been Enamored
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Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Arising Comparison Conception Else
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When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

Audience Big Dream Echo
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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

Been Entire Ever Motive
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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

Around Catalyst Choosing Direction
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Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Charm Conceit Consciousness Danger
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In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

Always Business Develop Everything
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I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

Back Down Excited Get
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

Because Duet Like Loved
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

Big Calm Cannot Celebrate
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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

Almost Art Passion Obscenity
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The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Art Between Business Environment
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

Achieve Change Destiny Enable
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