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“All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.”

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Author:Michael Moritz

“The problem with the Internet startup craze isn't that too many people are starting companies; it's that too many people aren't sticking with it. That's somewhat understandable, because there are many moments that are filled with despair and agony, when you have to fire people and cancel things and deal with very difficult situations. That's when you find out who you are and what your values are.”

People Moments Problem Values Difficult Deals Business Company Situation Fire Internet Despair Filled Who You Are Starting Agony Difficult Situations Craze

Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.”

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Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist had a moment to develop the record visually. When the web took over and camera phones, it stripped the artists of the power to figure it out. So there's a need to bridge that gap and that's my job.”

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Author:Laurieann Gibson

“Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood.”

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Author:J. G. Ballard

“Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.”

World Mean Whole Moments Eye Reading Voice Imagination Ability Space Company Keys Ears Mere Saint Whole World All Time Fancy Finest Sage Time And Space Sweetest Wisest Wittiest

Book:Democracy and other Addresses

Source: Democracy and other Addresses

“Education is a process that goes on 'til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true way, and can call all the others false, then you know you're in the company of an ignoramus.”

Knows Way Moments Found Process Education Company Goes On Found The One

Author:Maya Angelou

“There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.”

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Author:Andy Grove

“No matter who you are or what kind of company or organization you work for, your number-one job is to tell your story to the consumer wherever they are, and preferably at the moment they are deciding to make a purchase.”

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Book:Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World

Source: Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World

“You will never ever, in any circumstance, win any struggle at any time. That being said, we have a long way to go. At the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to completely eliminate the telephone and cable companies. We are not at that point yet. But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.”

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Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“No leader can possibly have all the answers . . . .The actual solutions about how best to meet the challenges of the moment have to be made by the people closest to the action. . . .The leader has to find the way to empower those frontline people, to challenge them, to provide them with the resources they need, and then to hold them accountable. As they struggle with . . . this challenge, the leader becomes their coach, teacher, and facilitator. Change how you define leadership, and you change how you run a company.”

People Way Needs Made Moments Running Action Challenges Leadership Answers Company Leader Struggle Teacher Solutions Resources Coaches Empowering Closest Encouraging Frontline

Author:Steve Miller

“It is not done to let anybody be too happy. The moment two people seem to be enjoying one another's company, a good hostess introduces a third element or removes the first.”

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Author:Virginia Graham

“As a result of overdiversification, their (active managers) returns get watered down. Diversification covers up ignorance. Active managers haven't done enough research into any of their companies. If managers have 200 positions, do you think they know what's going on at any one of those companies at this moment?”

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Author:Bill Ackman

“If the growth rate is so good that in another ten years the company might well have quadrupled, is it really of such great concern whether at the moment the stock might or might not be 35% overpriced?”

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Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and be sweet to the ones you love. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and truly like the company you keep in the empty moments of your life.”

Ifs Knows Want Moments Night Grief Company Sweet Despair Empty Bones Get Up Weary Bruised Company You Keep

Author:Jon Blais

“... It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.”

Ifs Knows Want Moments Fall Interest Company Empty Company You Keep

Author:Oriah Dreamer

“For life is a trumpery thing at best, isn't it? A few moments, a few words, between dark and dark. But in true love you keep company with the Gods.”

Moments Life Is Dark Company Love You Few Words

Author:Winston Graham

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