Leonard Lauder Quotes
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I believe when I leave this earth, because I love the Lord, I am going straight to Heaven.
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There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
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Some comics don't like it when people talk during the set, and it does get a little bit annoying after awhile, but I basically let people dictate what jokes I'm going to do.
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I'm a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch, but I don't get it. It smells like a girl who didn't shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on.
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The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken the steps needed for American beef to make its way back into the Japanese market.
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I didn't go to high school. I never felt connected to people my age.
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Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.
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The way you wear your hat,The way you sip your tea,The mem'ry of all that –No, no! They can't take that away from me!
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History breaks down in images not into stories.
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One of the things that struck me is how authentic 'Shark Tank' is. I don't know how more real it can be. You have no prior knowledge about the entrepreneurs.
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People look at me weird because I'm a Howard Stern fan, but he's very misunderstood. It's the first thing I do when I get in my car at a tournament - just pray that I get Howard 100 on Sirius or XM.
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I'm not a very verbal person.
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In one of the largest studies ever done on the effects of executive coaching - over 70,000 respondents - we learned that the biggest mistake coaches make is in not following up. It didn't matter who the coach was or what method they used. Failing to follow up made any approach to coaching ineffective.
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It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not. It just means that you're in sync with yourself.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with being paternalistic as a company.
