W. Clement Stone Quotes
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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I see what kids in the business have to watch. It's tough to do.
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A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
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I'm very proud that I have learned German and Russian. Especially Russian, because of how difficult and beautiful it is and because of how much I struggled in the beginning to get my head around how it works.
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A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.
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Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
