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J. Paul Getty
United States
15 Dec 1892 // 6 Jun 1976
Industrialist
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On Criticism:
Praise should always be given in public, criticism should always be given in private.
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On Business:
If businessmen always made the right decisions, business wouldn't be business.
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On Executive:
The successful executive � the leader, the innovator � is the exceptional man.
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On Independence:
Be an individualist � and an individual. You'll be amazed at how much faster you'll get ahead.
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On Success:
The truly successful businessman is essentially a dissenter, a rebel who is seldom if ever satisfied with the status quo.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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