W. Clement Stone Quotes
Give good thoughts (nature’s character builder) - you will be good and the world will have good thoughts for you.
Quotes to Explore
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I don't quite have the luxury of cherry-picking - I have to see what comes my way. But I have always been picky.
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One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
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I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
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I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.
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You can really get into it - especially in the movies, where you really have the time to get into your character and play her well.
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The problem a lot of writers have is that they really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be dictated by reader response. But if you're going to let other people make you feel good, you're going to end up feeling bad when they say the opposite. You've got to be a cultural stoic. Then you won't be devastated by people who respond negatively. Of course, the downside is that it sort of stops you from being able to enjoy people liking your work.
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I spent some time at a university for traditional Chinese medicine. There's a resurgence of people eating according to traditional Chinese medicine. So our challenge is, How do you marry traditional Chinese medicine with PepsiCo's products?
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Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.
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Give good thoughts (nature’s character builder) - you will be good and the world will have good thoughts for you.
