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You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.


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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.



A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.

A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.



Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.



A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!

A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!



The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.

The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.



Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.

Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.



Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.



On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.



It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.



Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it.

Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it.





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History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

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Sometimes, the people that love you the most turn out to be the people you will trust the least.

Sometimes, the people that love you the most turn out to be the people you will trust the least.



And how funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place. Ideas too, I muttered. Ideas.

And how funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place. Ideas too, I muttered. Ideas.



How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?

How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?



The internet must be used to maximise open communication and we should encourage the expansion of its use.

The internet must be used to maximise open communication and we should encourage the expansion of its use.



There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.

There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.



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I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

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I think any time you couple the term "Wall Street" with "bailout" or something like that, you know - I don't like what's going on in Wall Street.

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