Needs Quotes - Page 34

• As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation.

  Richard Branson

  Art, Strong, Personality

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• However tight things are, you still need to have the big picture at the forefront of your mind.

  Richard Branson

  Challenges, Mind, Bigs

  Richard Branson (1998). “Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way”, Crown Pub

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• You don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone. I think you do to use an Android phone.

  Steve Ballmer

  Thinking, Phones, Androids

  "Ballmer Thinks You Have To Be A Computer Scientist To Use Android" by Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I don't need a psychiatrist.
  I can sort out my fears with my work.
  That's the privilege of all artists,
  to be able to sort out their unhappiness
  and their neuroses in order
  to create something.

  Michael Haneke

  Artist, Order, Neurosis

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• Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how gorgeous I am.

  John Lydon

  Mirrors, Gorgeous, Punk

  "The Jimmy Kimmel Show", September 4, 2003.

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• Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry.

  Wyatt Earp

  Fighting, Gun, Fine

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• Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often we need to be in the story in order to understand, to connect, to help the audience identify or else it has no heart; it could be a robot telling the story, for all anyone cares.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Heart, Order, Class

  Cecelia Ahern (2013). “One Hundred Names”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.

  Kent Conrad

  Social, Security, Social Security

  "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 27, 2011.

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• The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.

  Maria Cantwell

  Law, United States, Trials

  "The Anderson Cooper 360° Show", transcripts.cnn.com. December 7, 2009.

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• The administration's reckless plan doesn't do one thing to ensure the long term security of social security, rather it undermines our economy. We need a budget and a fiscal policy that reflects the values and interests of America and restores fiscal discipline.

  Debbie Stabenow

  America, Discipline, Long

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• We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Working Together, Saving, Want

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• I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources

  Barbara Mikulski

  Firefighter, Training, Proud

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• The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It’s to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won’t deliver it.

  Tony Abbott

  Smart, Government, People

  Full text of Tony Abbott's budget reply speech, May 12, 2011.

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• In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads.

  Tony Abbott

  Running, Government, Cities

  "Battlelines". Book by Tony Abbott, 2009.

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• If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.

  Tony Abbott

  People, Should, Certain

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a sense that we've obtained from various quarters in the Security Council that the notion of an international tribunal is not really practical. Certainly Indonesia is not convinced, and we get a sense that the rest of the Security Council will need to be convinced about the recommendations.

  Marty Natalegawa

  Recommendations, Quarters, Indonesia

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• The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Jobs, Texas, People

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• As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Identity, Information, Financial

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• What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care].

  Stephen Harper

  Reform, Care, Delivery

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• Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.

  Mark Steyn

  Ambition, Agency, Hands

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• There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.

  Alexander McQueen

  Balance, Satisfaction, Financial

  "Alexander McQueen obituary" by Imogen Fox, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2010.

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• You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.

  Alexander McQueen

  Behinds, Theatrics

  "Boy done good" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2005.

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• You need to feel that you're making a difference.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Differences, Making A Difference, Feels

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• Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Leader, Female, Including

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.59, Knopf

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• No institution will go through fundamental change unless it believes it is in deep trouble and needs to do something different to survive.

  Lou Gerstner

  Believe, Different, Fundamentals

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