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"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

"One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks."

"By the time we've made it, we've had it."

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
Education

"Men who never get carried away should be."

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."

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

"The more sympathy you give, the less you need."

"Presence is more than just being there."

"People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too."

"Executives who get there and stay suggest solutions when they present the problems."

"Their steaks are often good, but the lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed and tough as most of the customers."

"It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history."

"Failure is success if we learn from it."
Success

"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are."

"It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it."

"Diversity: the art of thinking independently together."

"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy."

"People who never get carried away should be."

"When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better."

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