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You, my friend, alone are equal to a hundred of such friends. Happy Birthday to you.
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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
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If you can find a better car, buy it.
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Something's got to happen in this town to turn it around, or we're all going down the tubes.
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I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.
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Chrysler invented rebates, I'm sorry to say. I didn't have anything to do with that. A lot of flaky deals were made in order to give the customer enough cash for a down payment.
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He's just a good kid. I didn't understand half the things he was telling me, but it was fun.
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It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.
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Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.
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Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time.
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In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.
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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
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The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
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In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.
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A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.
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If you set a good example you need not worry about setting rules.
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Jason wanted me to be the spokesman for Nissan when he was with them.
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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
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I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.
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In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.
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You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.
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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
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The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
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