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“The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might've... I think you want to move on when you've given your best work and then feel that you're not going to add as much value moving forward.”
Source : "Founder Of The Princeton Review: 'I Hated Being A Public Company CEO'" by Alexandra Mondalek, www.businessinsider.com. July 17, 2013.
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“The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.”
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“Take a job, do it for ten years and work at it, and you'll succeed. Can I just add, take a job that you enjoy. If you don't enjoy the job, it's going to be a decade of hell.”
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“Death is the return to the very beginning of one's life, with the possibility of repeating it again.”
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“I don't know how well this would get on, but I'd probably live in Africa...as a job, it would probably be a safari guide.”
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“When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
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“Whether it's college or WNBA, its basketball and the more you play the less you need to adjust.”
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“The stars above will be below when man has Love.”
Source : "Sestina of the Space Rocket". Poem by Philip Jose Farmer (1953); originally published in "Startling Stories" Magazine, February 1953; republished in Philip Jose Farmer "Pearls From Peoria" edited by Paul Spiteri, 2006.
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“The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead; ask about the scale of their dreams - their Apple-, Google-, Amazon-scale dreams - how they measure their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come true, regardless of what the overhead is.”
Source : "The way we think about charity is dead wrong". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2013.