James Rouse Quotes
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.
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The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
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Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.
