General quotes
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A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
Intrinsic motivation is one of learning's most precious resources. It bolsters us to stick out the tough moments of a challenge and pursue what we love to do.
God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day.
I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens.
The phrase 'change the world' is tossed around Silicon Valley conversations and business plans as freely as talk of 'early-stage investing' and 'beta tests'.
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
Midwestern people stick together. Gee willikers, they work hard. There's no glitz, no glamour. When I was a girl in Duluth, Minnesota, I used to get up early and milk cows, so I know what hard work is.
Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.
But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her — especially if that is what she desires.
I've taken the leap of faith to stop punching the company time clock and start working for myself. I'm now the CEO of Starfish Media Group, my production company, in New York City.
I've never had a problem with nudity, but I don't put it out there without a reason.
Tactics are manipulative.
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Openness, respect, integrity — these are principles that need to underpin pretty much every other decision that you make.
All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.
