Quotes with first

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• The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

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  Bill Gates
  American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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• The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

  Carl Hiaasen
  American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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• The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

  Anthea Turner
  English television presenter (1960 - )
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• The first rule of the C.E.O. psychological meltdown is 'Don't talk about the psychological meltdown.'

  Ben Horowitz
  American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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• The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.

  Bobby Keys
  American saxophonist (1943 - 2014)
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• The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.

  Milo Bloom
   
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• The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

  Georges Bernanos
  French writer (1888 - 1948)
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• The first sign that I'd been unknowingly affected by cooking shows occurred on a Sunday morning when I realized I was talking to myself. I'd been making toast. 'First, we cut our bread,' I whispered. 'Do you know why?' I stopped what I was doing and looked up. 'Let me tell you why.'

  Bill Buford
  American author and journalist
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• The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
  

  Marianne Williamson
  American writer (1952 - )
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• The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.
  

  Zig Ziglar
  American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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• The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

  Albert Schweitzer
  German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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• The first step to boosting your income is to identify where your passion lives and to be true to it.

  Alan Cohen
  American businessman (1954 - )
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• The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust. Nor can we attain to any kind of knowledge, except by a like process.

  Augustus William Hare
  British writer (1792 - 1834)
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• The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

  Nathaniel Branden
  Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer (1930 - 2014)
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• The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

  Mark Caine
  American writer
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• The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

  Richard Cecil
  British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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• The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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• The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

  Joe Batten
   
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-knowledge
• self-distrust
• forgiveness
• willingness
• environment
• everything

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