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People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#conceited #considerable #enough #envy #fortune

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#deceives #few #few people #good #people

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#except #find #good #good sense #opinions

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#beyond #dismiss #mediocre #minds #own

And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that they were now able to manufacture it and that they were going to kill Intel. ↗

— Arthur Rock

#ad #announcing #apple #behold #chip

And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while. ↗

— Arthur Rock

#board #chairman #data #dollars #hundred

IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968. ↗

— Arthur Rock

#copying #decided #enter #going #ibm

I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers. ↗

— Kid Rock

#am #big #drink #eat #happy

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards. ↗

— Arthur Rock

#come #everything #going #got #guide

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out. ↗

— Arthur Rock

#building #company #get #interested #just