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Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It's imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely.

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Harm, Protecting, Which, National Defense

Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers into America's middle class.

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United, Transporting, Auto, Ford

I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. I've driven a lot of cars - sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But there's nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche.

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Car, Big, Porsche, Vehicles

I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.

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Invest, Rather, Before, Assumes

There are a lot of impractical things about owning a Porsche. But they're all offset by the driving experience. It really is unique. Lamborghinis and Ferraris come close. And they are more powerful, but they don't handle like a Porsche.

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Porsche, Like, Offset, Handle

I do not own a single security anywhere that doesn't pay a dividend, and I formed a mutual-fund company with that very simple philosophy.

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Own, Pay, Very, Dividend

Television is the most interesting hobby I've ever had.

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Television, Most, Ever, Hobby

I have met many entrepreneurs who have the passion and even the work ethic to succeed - but who are so obsessed with an idea that they don't see its obvious flaws. Think about that. If you can't even acknowledge your failures, how can you cut the rope and move on?

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Idea, Cut, Entrepreneurs, Ethic

Working 24 hours a day isn't enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal life, your family life, maybe more. If people think it's any less, they're wrong, and they will fail.

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Maybe, Willing, Your, 24 Hours

Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.

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Conquer, Bring, Unprepared, Currency

Filming 'The Road to Riches' was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be emotionally exhausting as you are forced to revisit the euphoric highs and painful lows in high speed.

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Career, Back, Forced, Surprisingly

Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

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Happy, Be Happy, Pay, Dues

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

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Young, Behind, I Remember, Helpless

Having won re-election convincingly and against the economic odds, President Obama quickly made good on his promise of maintaining taxes as they are for the middle class while raising them on the wealthiest Americans.

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Against, Quickly, Obama, Odds

I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.

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Wealth, Bed, Woke, Richer

Know everything about the companies and people you are going to be negotiating with. Insist on getting the names of everyone participating in the negotiations. Leave no stone unturned; find out as much as you can.

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Everyone, Going, About, Stone

I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.

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Generation, Think, Next, Map

When you're travelling, your day is jam-packed. I just don't have time to whip out a PC all the time. But I can whip out a BlackBerry and tweet. I keep a constant diary of where I'm at and why I'm there.

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Why, Travelling, Constant, Blackberry

I think a book is your calling card, your business card.

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Business, Think, I Think, Calling Card

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

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Unions, Leverage, Capital, Versus

When you're an investor, you can look at the quantitative and qualitative elements of an investment, but there's a third aspect: What you feel in your gut.

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Investment, Feel, Gut, Quantitative

In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes left by President George W. Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Bush, Obama, Cautious, Economic

My worst fashion faux pas: probably orange shoes with white pants. I thought I looked spectacular.

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Thought, Pants, Looked, Faux

When I turned 50, something clicked in my head and I said, 'I'm not going to live to 100. I'm half-cooked already.' I set the family down and I said, 'Listen everybody, we're now entering the decade of Daddy. We're going to start doing things that I want to do.'

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Doing, Decade, Everybody, Clicked

All businesses require capital, management and labor, and business executives, wanting to grow and maintain profitable enterprises, have a strong incentive to keep costs, including labor, as low as possible.

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Wanting, Costs, Capital, Businesses

I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.

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Think, Some, I Think, Entrepreneur

Once in a while, I see my fellow TV investors praise a business just because they like the entrepreneur behind it. That kind of thinking might make you feel warm and fuzzy inside - but let's get back to reality.

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Behind, Feel, TV, Entrepreneur

Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.

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Money, Think, Here, Everyday

There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all.

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Process, Add, Lot, Managers

Software is becoming no different than a videotape or a record album or a paperback book, and not all of us are ready for that change.

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Software, Album, Becoming, Paperback

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