In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
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God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, "Who's that?" But this got me started in acting. ~James Stewart
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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