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“If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.”

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”

“I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.”

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.”

“You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.”

“If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it -- teach yourself to be impatient.”

“Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.”

“Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example, may be close to freezing, utterly exhausted, and in danger of falling into a bottomless crevasse, yet he wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Sipping a piña colada under a palm tree at the edge of the turquoise ocean is idyllic, but it just doesn't compare to the exhilaration he feels on the windswept ridge.”

“Do you want a successful career or a close relationship with your family? Both! Do you want a focus on business or have fun and play? Both! Do you want money or meaning in your life? Both! Do you want to earn a fortune or do the work you love? Both! Poor people always choose one, rich people choose both.”

“I can find only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours and God's. Much of our stress comes from mentally living out of our business. When I think, "You need to get a job, I want you to be happy, you should be on time, you need to take better care of yourself," I am in your business. When I'm worried about earthquakes, floods, war, or when I will die, I am in God's business. If I am mentally in your business or in God's business, the effect is separation.”

“I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow's obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.”