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You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other.

You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on the unending torrent of financial data. The eddies, cataracts, arranged variations, fractious minutiae. You order the data, shepherd it, direct its flow, lead it where it's needed ... You deal in facts, gentlemen, for which there has been a market since man first crept from the primeval slurry.

You have to understand who you are and figure out a way to communicate it. It might be in a different industry, but it's about what pumps the blood through your veins, what makes you excited, what pushes your buttons. And then discovering the best way to communicate that, no matter how big or small; it's what you stand for, what you believe in, and what reflects who you are.

You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.

You know honestly, I enjoy working with everyone because remember, these were all real pros that had been around the business a long time.

You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy, because it sells movies on 'behind the scenes' footage. It's seeing the secrets of how the movies are made, and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plots a secret.

You know, Mrs. Fields was never a business. It was a part of me...and I never separated, oh, well, business from personal because to me they all blended together.

You know, sometimes people never get to learn how successful they could have been because they give up too easily. If I've learned one thing in all my years in the business, it's that often things don't work out the way you want at first. But that doesn't mean you should give up.

You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women.

You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.

You know we're in a business where things are just unpredictable. You don't know what's going to happen...we were lucky Blessed, I think is a better way to put it.

You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

You learn in this business.. If you want a friend, get a dog.

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.

You never know what you can do until you have to do it.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.

You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.

Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.

Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

Your business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.

Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

You're missing it. This is not a one-man show. What's reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there's a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But they're not losers. What they didn't have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now.

Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.

Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy.

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

You remove heavy metals out of the ground and you turn that into tables, and houses and bridges and dreams for people in the developing world. I love doing that.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Your needs will be met once you can find a way of projecting energy and fulfilling someone else's need.

You should choose organisations that are going to be flexible and supportive and recognise people are going through different stages in their careers and actually need different sorts of support.

You should think of your customers as partners, or better still, family.

You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you'll be successful. If you start a business because you think you're going to make a lot of money at it, then you probably won't be successful, because that's the wrong reason to start a business. You have to really believe in what you're doing, be passionate enough about it so that you will put in the hours and hard work that it takes to actually succeed there, and then you'll be successful.

You shouldn't focus on why you can't do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.

You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.