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Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.
Steve Jobs

Money, Pretty, Making

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
Albert Camus

Friend, Between, Used

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest Hemingway

Writing, May, Enough

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
Leo Buscaglia

Life, Tomorrow, Away

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
Elbert Hubbard

Hard, Pretty, Obnoxious

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.
Elbert Hubbard

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.
Steve Jobs

Future, Stupid, Strong

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Human, Him, Eyes

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen

Person, May, Words

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
Paulo Coelho

Love, Time, Women

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Elbert Hubbard

Idea, Dangerous, Worthy

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
Oprah Winfrey

Life, Success, Matter

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher

Power, Tell, Lady

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
Bill Cosby

Father, Him, American

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
Anais Nin

Human, Made, Poverty

I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.
Charlie Sheen

Marriage, Tried, Golden

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
Richard Bach

Yourself, True, Fake

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
Oprah Winfrey

Life, Giving, Able

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren Kierkegaard

Happiness, Thinking, Him

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
Ann Landers

Money, Job, Maturity

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
Jimi Hendrix

Music, Truth, Makes

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.
Bill Cosby

Women, Men, Children

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Saint Augustine

Great, Humility, Wish

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will Rogers

Government, Democracy, Keep

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
Barack Obama

Black, Friends, Students

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
Robert Kiyosaki

Truth, Play, Afraid

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
Rodney Dangerfield

Said, Everyone, Ridiculous

For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.
Bill Cosby

Down, College, Cry

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Bob Dylan

Music, Today, Living

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
Barbara Bush

Family, Around, Means

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