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If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.

If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!

If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form a view of what you genuinely think is in the public interest... put the public interest above the vested interest.

If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail.

If you are at all successful in your business, be prepared to never have another good day or bad day at work. There will be so many things - good and bad - happening on any given day that you will be on a roller coaster of highs and lows. If that excites you, then go for it.

If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer. We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right question. Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.

Ifyou believe in something, work nights and weekends, it won't feel like work.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

If you believe that every life has equal value, it’s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: “This can’t be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.”

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.

If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

If you do not know where your competitor is, or overconfident and snobbish about your competitor, or are unable to comprehend how yourcompetitor became a real threat, you will surely fall behind him. Don't be the "they" in this idiom: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace.

If you do not have the time to read, you do not have the time to lead.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

If you don't have time for the small things, you won't have time for the big things

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.

If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.

If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.

If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.

If you go running, you put on sneakers. When you go bowling, you take your personal bowling balls with you. In much the same fashion, it won't be long before you have your special sunglasses to take to the movie theater.

If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then be different from your peers.

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

If you have all the research, all the ground rules, all the directives, all the data - it doesn't mean the ad is written. Then you've got to close the door and write something - that is the moment of truth which we all try to postpone as long as possible.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.

If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day

If you hear my idea but don't believe it, that's not your fault; it's mine. If you see my new product but don't buy it, that's my failure, not yours. If you attend my presentation and you're bored, that's my fault too.