Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
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Bill Cosby
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
“If you lie to me, you’re through. I won’t do business with you.”
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Leona Helmsley in a 1985 interview with Mike Wallace
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
“The concept was to dress the American working woman because I, as a working woman with a child didn’t want to spend hours shopping. Things should be easy. You don’t have to dress in that little navy blue suit with a tie. I wanted to dress her in sportier clothes and colors.”
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Liz Claiborne in an interview with Women’s Wear Daily
On where her business idea came from
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
“I looked at this issue of the motor, and thought, “why do I have to choose, as a consumer, between a canister cleaner and an upright cleaner?” As a designer, why couldn’t I combine the two into one?”
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James Dyson in an interview with Core77
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
“If you understand an idea, you can express it so others can understand it.”
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Warren Buffett
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
“I sobbed real tears and I ripped off my gold watch and threw it at (colleagues) because there was no more time. I’d say, `You let me down, how could you let me down, I cannot bear this, my God, I don’t know what to do!’ I was magnificent.”
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Mary Wells Lawrence, Founder of Wells Rich Greene
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
“I was a demanding and tough manager. I was no joy to behold. You have to kick people around and remove people. You don’t hesitate. You do it.”
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T.A. (Thornton) Wilson, Boeing
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