Marc Benioff Quotes
Presentation skills are key. People who work for you represent your brand. You want them to present themselves - and represent you - in a certain way.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed. There are those who consider them a soft target when it comes to local authority budget cuts. In certain political quarters, there is a refusal to see that our public library service needs active protection.
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
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I'd love to make a film like 'Pan's Labyrinth.'
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A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.
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Creative directors can be egocentric, they say. I decide; they shout at people and harass. I don't want that.
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Presentation skills are key. People who work for you represent your brand. You want them to present themselves - and represent you - in a certain way.
