"Don't let the best you have done so far be the standard for the rest of your life."

-- Gustavus Franklin Swift

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“We need to create an enterprise culture, a society where successful entrepreneurs are respected and admired, not treated with suspicion and disdain. And in which we see less envy of other peoples' achievements and mistrust of commerce, and a greater readiness to get out there and join in the process.”

Source : Speech to the Institute of Directors' Annual Conference, February 26, 1985.
“An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the thirteenth looked down on the black ash heaps of the city. Ignoring the twelve windows, the prince always looked out through the thirteenth. It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.”
“The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.”
“If you're sitting in front of the TV, you can't have ice cream. But if you're running around all day, then yeah, you can.”
“I think that I would really like at first for the art to speak for itself. I don't see the need for a lot of personal information about my past or who I am. I would rather the personal side of it just be in the concepts and the genuine feelings that I filter through my work. I know that it's inevitable that people can find whatever they want about me. Once I've had a chance to create a language and a world with my art, then I'm more comfortable sharing that information.”
“Obedience decks the Christian most.”
“Parents must have the courage to say no, to defend truth, and to bear powerful testimony.”
“There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.”

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