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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.


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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.



In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.



Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.



Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.



Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.



I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality



A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.



If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.



Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - - mental, financial you name it.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - - mental, financial you name it.



It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.





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Islam has nothing to do with any act of terrorism. We reject every act of extremism and terrorism unconditionally.

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I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?



She had something down there twice as big as mine. That's why I say you better watch where you stroke, cause it could turn out, turn out to be a joke.

She had something down there twice as big as mine. That's why I say you better watch where you stroke, cause it could turn out, turn out to be a joke.



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Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it.



I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.



Technology changes so much that it has forced me to adapt.

Technology changes so much that it has forced me to adapt.




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