- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Emphasize
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- Nov 07, 2020
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.
- Executing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe that saying things because you feel they are what people want to hear is the right way to be in any part of your life.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when companies are struggling, they don't want to talk to the press. The guys who write business books aren't interested in it because nobody wants to learn what it's like to be a mess, you want to learn how to be successful. That's slanted the whole thing quite a bit.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're looking for the phony in American politics, you could do worse than follow the money.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a CEO, the books on management that I read weren't very much help after the first few months on the job. They were all designed to give you directions on how not to screw up your company.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to see a bunch of happy Americans, go out to opening day at any baseball stadium in the land.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What goes around comes around in business, and it's better to help people out rather than bill them every time you speak to them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they have the wrong skill set, but the good thing is that they don't have any of the old paradigms baked into them, so they have a lot of the bright new ideas that are harder to come by as you get older.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company.' But those aren't really the hard things. The hard things are when you have to layoff half your company, or you have to fire your best friend. Or you have to figure out a way not to go bankrupt.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be responsible when you're running an organization, and firing people who are your friends is part of that responsibility.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The laws of business physics have been broken in terms of how many customers you can acquire and how fast. No one in history has ever acquired 450 million customers in the same amount of time that WhatsApp did.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020