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		An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them is quite likely to dismiss his business. Success is the sum of detail. It might perhaps be pleasing to imagine oneself beyond detail and engaged only in great things, but as I have often observed, if one attends only to great things and lets the little things pass the great things become little; that is, the business shrinks.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harvey S. Firestone 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		We really should be grateful to the people who participate in research and allow certain details to be published about themselves. Because if they didn't, we wouldn't have nearly the understanding of the brain that we do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Kean 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rand Paul 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lady Gaga 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Altman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack Welch 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Mint's business model became, 'We'll go for free, and then we'll find these savings opportunities for you.' You know, better interest rate on your credit cards, when should you consolidate your student loans, when does it mathematically make sense to refinance your mortgage, and Mint figures all that stuff out for you. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		The thought of becoming a painter never as much as occurred to me. I would have laughed out loud if someone had suggested that I choose painting as a career. To be a painter is not a business, no more than to be an artist, lover, racer, dreamer, or prizefighter. It is a gift of Nature, a gift.. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Maurice de Vlaminck 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Brownback 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ezra Stiles 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We report the news. Fox talks about the news. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jonathan Klein 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		On engagement, we're already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They're more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mark Zuckerberg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them is quite likely to dismiss his business. Success is the sum of detail. It might perhaps be pleasing to imagine oneself beyond detail and engaged only in great things, but as I have often observed, if one attends only to great things and lets the little things pass the great things become little; that is, the business shrinks. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harvey S. Firestone