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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 in the business of building an organization, an institution that we hope will be here 50 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.