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Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine. ↗

— Ron Johnson

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Pricing is actually a pretty simple and straight forward thing. Customers will not pay literally a penny more than the true value of the product. ↗

— Ron Johnson

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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#crimes #injuries #justice #passion #revenge

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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