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A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas. -- Thomas Sowell
I think the lie we've told people in the marketplace is that a degree gets you a job. A degree doesn't get you a job. What gets you a job is the ability to carry yourself into that room and shake a hand and look someone in the eye and have people skills. These are the things that cause people to become successful. -- Dave Ramsey
Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace -- Sophie Kinsella
We know there is real interest from the American public in having easy access to the new, affordable choices in the Health Insurance Marketplace. -- Todd Park
Hawaiâ??i Pacific University's new use of the iconic Aloha Tower Marketplace will continue its historic role of welcoming visitors, and now students, to the heart of Honolulu in a modern, vibrant mixed-use space. -- Kirk Caldwell
I'm very excited to once again perform the National Anthem at Michigan International Speedway for the GFS Marketplace 400. The fans at MIS have always been great to me and it is always an honor to perform for them, whether it's a concert or the National Anthem. -- Julie Roberts
Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace. -- Michael J. Gelb
The financial crisis is a stark reminder that transparency and disclosure are essential in today's marketplace. -- Jack Reed
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world. -- Maeve Binchy
In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible. -- Seth Godin
Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented. -- Donald Rumsfeld
In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace. -- Dave Ramsey
We cannot allow internet service providers to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas. -- Barack Obama
The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright owners and copyright users. -- Hilary Rosen
The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace. -- David Ogilvy
The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors. -- Christopher Bond
In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time. -- Marlo Thomas
I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them. -- Wilfrid Laurier
I am impressed with the innovation in the wireless marketplace. The Blackberry, the iPhone, the Pre, and other smart devices are breakthrough technologies that have helped revolutionize the wireless space. -- Julius Genachowski
A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths. -- Herb Caen
Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace. -- Ron Kind
I strongly believe that you can't win in the marketplace unless you win first in the workplace. If you don't have a winning culture inside, it's hard to compete in the very tough world outside. -- Douglas Conant
Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace. -- Simon Mainwaring
When looking at trends I always ask myself basic and timeless questions about business, and the one I seem to always come back to is, 'How is this different than anything else in the marketplace?' -- Daymond John
Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace. -- Simon Mainwaring
When you think about it, if the fittest always won, all forests should be completely homogeneous. One species should supplant all others as the most superior competitor. But it doesn't happen that way. Nor does it happen that way in the marketplace. -- Joel A. Barker
The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same. -- Bill Gates
Americans wouldn't do that [cashing out the same day]. Then they would be in the great old thing we used to call the marketplace. You know, we have hundreds of millions of stock shares floating every day. People buy them and sell them and trade them. -- Lamar Alexander
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals - the technique of the marketplace. -- Milton Friedman
All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders. -- Steve Ballmer
As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them. -- Valerie Jarrett
People were doing business with one another through the Internet already, through bulletin boards. But on the Web, we could make it interactive, we could create an auction, we could create a real marketplace. And that's really what triggered my imagination, if you will, and that's what I did. -- Pierre Omidyar
The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior. -- Randy Neugebauer
Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess. -- Henry Petroski
Jesus' life was a storm of controversy. The apostles, like the prophets before them, could hardly go a day without controversy. Paul said that he debated daily in the marketplace. To avoid controversy is to avoid Christ. We can have peace, but it is a servile and carnal peace where truth is slain in the streets. -- R. C. Sproul
Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse. -- Christopher Hitchens
The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the more the wheels of capitalism work better because there's trust in the marketplace. Business ethics is not a joke. And, in fact, I think most businesses that I've dealt with encourage exactly that type of behavior. -- Rick Santorum
Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is that all good books will eventually find a publisher if the writer tries hard enough, and a central secret to writing a good book is to write on that people like you will enjoy. -- Richard North Patterson
While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation. Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control. -- Pope Francis
The marketplace is democratic. -- Pericles
Business is the marketplace of ideas. -- Mark Cuban
You need to define yourself in the marketplace. -- Steve Madden
It's not easy staying relevant in the marketplace. -- Frankie Knuckles
I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace. -- Ad Reinhardt
In the 21st century, the database is the marketplace. -- Stan Rapp
If consumers make better choices, the marketplace will change. -- Mike Huckabee
A true marketplace is a treasure of long tail products. -- Saurabh Pandey
Some services are too important to leave to the marketplace. -- Joseph Bernardin
Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. -- Jim Rohn
To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace. -- Douglas Conant
If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. -- Jim Rohn
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The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace. -- Henry David Thoreau
Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use. -- Frank Gehry
I am seriously troubled by the proposed rapid consolidation in the telecommunications marketplace. -- Conrad Burns
The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries. -- Mark Crispin Miller
Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace. -- David Byrne
There is no purity with regards to the marketplace and art, I believe. -- Kehinde Wiley
Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy. -- William Blake
The border is a marketplace. The invisible hand of the powerful governs the crossings. -- Amitava Kumar
Design is the only thing that differentiates one product from another in the marketplace. -- Norio Ohga
Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace. -- Reid Hoffman
Obamacare is a marketplace in the same way the Knockout Game is a game. -- Ilana Mercer
It's better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace. -- Al Ries
The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving. -- John Bolton
There are two fools in every marketplace; one asks too little, one asks too much. -- Alan Sugar
The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations. -- William Greider
You will be paid in direct proportion to the value you create in the marketplace. -- T. Harv Eker
A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I've always believed the best measure of a product's worth is customer acceptance in the marketplace. -- Paul Otellini
Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn. -- Chris Argyris
The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is. -- Alexis Ohanian
I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth. -- Richard Condon
I mean, it's real hard to be free when you're bought and sold in the marketplace. -- Jack Nicholson
We have to restore confidence that the marketplace can deliver services as well as it can goods. -- Ron Paul
Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions... -- Ludwig von Mises
In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth. -- Kalle Lasn
My opinion is that more authors could use podcasts to differentiate themselves in a crowded text-based marketplace. -- Nathan Lowell
In the marketplace, design is your greatest differentiator once everything becomes comparable in terms of technology and quality. -- Gerry McGovern
We realized we had high-volume marketplace as a platform. Anyone can come in and buy with a subscription. -- Jon Oringer
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a cure for AIDS in the marketplace before Magic Johnson gets AIDS? -- Dan Quayle
Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men. -- Laozi
The world is a marketplace. We all are in business and what we areselling is our unique selves. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers. -- Peter Diamandis
Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower. -- Al Ries
We have to take the biblical truth and start applying it in the statehouse, the schoolhouse, and the marketplace. -- Rod Parsley
If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the marketplace responds to the public's needs and desires. -- Frank Gehry
Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget. -- Daniel Suarez
It's a tough marketplace right now... It is very compressed... A turnaround is likely to happen quicker than before. -- Peter Chernin
The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace. -- Andy Grove
Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements. -- Bill Frist
A lot of it had to do with when it's released and what's out in the marketplace, what's its competition. -- Jerry Bruckheimer
If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people. -- Aaron Levie
We have created not a Brave New World, but a vulgar marketplace, where human attributes come with a price tag. -- Linda Chavez
It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available. -- Thomas E. Mann
gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give. -- P. D. James
A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place. -- Ryan Lilly
I don't think of the marketplace as teen-oriented or teen-dominated. I think of it as dominated by high-concept, in marketing especially. -- Curtis Hanson
Raising awareness, changing the marketplace, effecting spiritual change - whatever it is that you decide is your thing, go for it. -- Stone Gossard
Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me. -- Mary Karr
Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process. -- Ronald Reagan
The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace. -- Cornel West
The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace." -- Jeffrey Zeldman
The key to long term success in the marketplace is to build relationships & acquire leadership skills that can build great teams. -- JR
My career has sort of been characterized by taking advantage of the changes in the marketplace, sometimes by design, sometimes by accident. -- Colin Callender
The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns out, is a lot like no information. -- Adam Davidson
Manipulating currencies is when you're going into the marketplace and buying something in large amounts to depress the value of the currency. -- Jamie Dimon
Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations. -- Seth Godin
Write from the soul, not from some notion what you think the marketplace wants. The market is fickle; the soul is eternal. -- Jeffrey Carver
Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father. -- David Platt
There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids. -- Mark Jackson
We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves. -- Ram Dass
Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business. -- John Kao
Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book. -- Tibor Fischer
Shutterstock has evolved from an image-based marketplace for small businesses to a much broader platform, with a large and expanding addressable market opportunity. -- Jon Oringer
Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom. -- Don Henley
Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems. -- Dean Kamen
The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare? -- Susan George
This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today - a competitive marketplace: That's an idea that both sides embrace. -- David Axelrod

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