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The secret to business longevity is simple: be useful to your country, your customers, and your partners — in that order.
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The best companies are built with a long-term view. Short-term thinking is the enemy of real value creation.
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We don't need to be a public company to build a great company. We never have.
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Wall Street is in the business of making money between now and next Tuesday. We're trying to build an institution that will be here 50 and 60 years from now.
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I never wanted to be the biggest. I wanted to be the best. The size came because we kept doing the work right.