Tycoons Quotes

• Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

  H. L. Hunt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• If you owe fifty dollars you're a piker; if you owe fifty thousand dollars you're a businessman; if you owe fifty million dollars you're a tycoon; if you owe fifty billion dollars you're the government.

  Sam Levenson

  Government, Fifty, Dollars

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• The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common is that they all began their journeys when they were none of these things.

  Mike Dooley

  Inspirational, Athlete, Insperational

  Mike Dooley (2010). “Manifesting Change: It Couldn't Be Easier”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Business, Simple

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• If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.

  Azim Premji

  Business, Inspiration, People

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• If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Motivational, Change, Success

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are only three requirements for success. First, decide exactly what it is you want in life. Second, determine the price that you are going to have to pay to get the things you want. And third, and this is most important, resolve to pay that price.

  H. L. Hunt

  Life, Success, Entrepreneur

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  Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Success, Education

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 04, 2016

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• I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it's egotistical, but I have it in me. I don't want to be a tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls.

  Mike Tyson

  Fear, Motivation, People

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• As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate.

  Azim Premji

  Learning, Bigger, Delegates

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• Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting.

  Lana Del Rey

  Mean, Successful, Interesting

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2011.

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• Who wants to be reputable? That's for golfers and tycoons with a sleazy past.

  Tim Winton

  Past, Want, Golfers

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.

  Thomas Frank

  People, Culture, Lasts

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• American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

  Diane Ravitch

  Education, Business, School

  Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.236, Basic Books

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• After I finished the Tycoons - on post-Civil War development - I realized how much I didn't know about the first half of the century, even though there had obviously been an enormous amount of development, so I read about and thought about that for a couple of years before I decided I was ready for a book.

  Charles R. Morris

  Couple, War, Book

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The Last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back then.

  Matt Bomer

  Lasts, Speak, Dean

  "Matt Bomer on 'The Last Tycoon' and His Long-Gestating Montgomery Clift Biopic". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Love, Past, Race

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• It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution.

  Dan Quayle

  Mistake, Would Be, Serious

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• Moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.

  Frank Zappa

  Work, Moving, Dental Floss

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• I think those who invest in mutual funds want someone else to do the thinking for them. But the fact that they can move the money around the family of mutual funds just through a phone call lets them feel that they can play tycoons.

  Ron Chernow

  Moving, Thinking, Phones

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• It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic, acquisitive evil. Ugly evil. The ugly American. The ugly American at his ugly worst. That's exactly what it is.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Evil, Ugly, Vanderbilt

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

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• Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Sports, Growing Up, Class

  Chuck Klosterman (2010). “George Will vs. Nick Hornby: An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Home, Opportunity, Productive Work

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.179, Pantheon

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• What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial role of museum professionals usurped by self-serving tycoons in the name of economic imperative threatens not only the integrity of individual institutions but the very principle of art held in public trust.

  Martin Filler

  Trust, Art, Integrity

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