Brian Wong Quotes
Why was the public so forgiving? Partly because everybody was still in love with the legacy of Steve Jobs, who was never the world’s most diplomatic guy (in fact, he may have invented Cheat 5 about pissing people off) but was somebody who never got accused of not giving a shit. People knew he lived and breathed his products, and in a world of depersonalized, manipulative commerce, that was exactly what it took to build brand loyalty, and in turn create the most golden of opportunities: the second chance. When you get a do-over on your screw-ups, you can almost always find the fix.
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I have a very small public.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.
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You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.
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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
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We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
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I'm not having to go outside and switch the role model hat on. It's me, and it's important for me to leave that legacy to help inspire younger players because I didn't have a role model growing up.
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I am proud of religious Zionism. I am proud of the members of religious Zionism because it is a true ideological public.
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I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.
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Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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My teaching is my legacy.
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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
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We often think our legacy will be our achievements. But often our legacy will be whether we set a moral standard.
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I'm all about leaving a legacy behind and trying to cement myself as one of the greats. I don't just want to be remembered as the guy who beat Michael Phelps at the 2012 London Olympics - a one-hit wonder - I want to be an inspiration to the kids.
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I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'
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On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.
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If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.
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Be true to yourself, no matter what that is.
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Why was the public so forgiving? Partly because everybody was still in love with the legacy of Steve Jobs, who was never the world’s most diplomatic guy (in fact, he may have invented Cheat 5 about pissing people off) but was somebody who never got accused of not giving a shit. People knew he lived and breathed his products, and in a world of depersonalized, manipulative commerce, that was exactly what it took to build brand loyalty, and in turn create the most golden of opportunities: the second chance. When you get a do-over on your screw-ups, you can almost always find the fix.
