"There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it."
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"Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.“
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