Marc Benioff Quotes
The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.
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A recipe I've seen work in early-stage startups is a small tight-knit group of passionate people who are obsessed with their vision of how to fix a particular industry. Conversely, teams composed of people with a lot of specialized experience at running a large business are not as likely to do very well in the first year or two of a startup.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.
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I want to be a billionaire, and then I want to change something in the world for real.
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The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.
