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When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered.
You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.
This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.
It would be easier to screw up American Express than Coke or Gillette, but it's an immensely strong business.
I've got some advice for the young: If you've got anything you really want to do, don't wait until you're 93.
People need to understand: Businesses are going to make mistakes. They shouldn't be shot and hung every time.
Using the Internet to secure employment is as vital to a construction worker as it is to a software engineer.
At Reliance, we have always believed in investing in the businesses of the future and in investing in talent.
One day I'd like to go to the Moon and look at the planet Earth and say, 'Wow, there's part of my portfolio.'
It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.
We're very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world's best products and enriching people's lives.
Ecology and economy are becoming inextricably entwined, and the world is becoming more conscious of this fact.
The customer is a remarkably selfish person: He takes the relationship to where the execution is in his favor.
You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
The interesting thing is the field is so big - it's enormous. One thing a modern civilization needs is energy.
Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.
It's moderate growth, with some parts of the world better than people think, and better than last year [2015].
Some things never change - there will be another crisis, and its impact will be felt by the financial markets.
It's really helpful to be physically engaged in something that's completely different from my day-to-day work.
Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users sentiments.
It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.
My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.
The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.
I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life.
It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
If there are differences of views or divergence of ideas, they can be resolved through discussion and dialogue.
Berkshireis in the business of making easy predictions If a deal looks too hard, the partners simply shelve it.
If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.
The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.
Women helping each other - coaching, mentoring, and providing tips - is a great way for us to be our own force.
I read every country's perspective on an issue. I also play many games like Bridge, Scrabble and Sudoku online.
Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments.
All of us know that the energy from the sun can now be harnessed, and we need to convert it sensibly to use it.
You become a star not because of your title; you become a star because you are adding star value to the company
I didn't say I'm walking away. I said I was stepping down as chairman. I won't walk away. I'll be carried away.
Well, it's not hard to be number one entertaining Jew. Some of them are quite bleeding bloody miserable, really.
I have always felt intuitively that somehow such wealth cannot be the privy of any one person or any one family.
Once you start doing something bad, then it's easy to take the next step - and in the end, you're a moral sewer.
You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time.
There were periods when the art market got overheated, but there is no reason it should appreciate dramatically.
PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently
Dodd-Frank is 2,000 pages long. It covers thousands of rules, regulations, interpretations and things like that.
Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.
Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.
Why kick the man downstream who can't put the parts together because the parts really weren't designed properly?