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“Any blocks you have can be reduced to one cause: You don't think enough of yourself. Go to a mirror, say 'I love you.' Mean it. You'll be fine.”
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“Politics was an inherited affliction in our family, passed on like a weak chin from one generation to the next.”
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“... trade is art, and art's philosophy, / In Paris.”
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“... I always have a quotation for everything — it saves original thinking.”
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“It wasn't hard to hire good managers, but I had to learn how to give them leeway and make sure that they used it. I told them, don't expect me to second-guess you. Success or failure is up to you. There's no point in hiring able people if you don't give them a chance to use their abilities. With the responsibility squarely on their shoulders, people learn to act decisively. I have always looked for another me. If I found that person, I reasoned, my company would be twice as good.”
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“The trouble with the new world we have watched being created over the past decade is that it sees no further than money. People have always been obsessed with money, of course — greed is as old as history. But when the institutions that govern all our lives forget there was ever anything else, then it gets dangerous.”
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“Time does not obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.”
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“Contraception: my freedom. Abortion: my last resort. Pregnancy: my choice.”