Francis Bacon Quotes
In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.
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The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
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That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.
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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.
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I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?
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As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then is going to define who you are at the table!
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.
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I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
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I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.
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Philanthropists can learn important lessons from business entrepreneurs. They both spend their time solving problems. And to be successful, they both must overcome physical challenges and create self-sustaining operations. And ultimately, they must allow people to take action for their own benefit.
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I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'
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I keep only a small edit in my wardrobe because I think it is important to keep things moving through, and I like to find out which pieces from my collections work and which could be reworked and improved.
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I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth certificate.
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This job has probably got the most screwing-up potential in the world.
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In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.
