T. J. Rodgers Quotes
Choosing a Board of Directors based on race and gender is a lousy way to run a company.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.
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Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.
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I try and be truthful.
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Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your community for the last 20 years, that person is working just as much as the individual who's running General Mills.
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The Olympics are what I work for. They're why I spend so much time in the gym.
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Choosing a Board of Directors based on race and gender is a lousy way to run a company.
