I just wanted to be a ...

I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.
I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.
 Aubrey McClendon

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
 Sam Walton
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

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I get mad at the New York-based environmentalists because if you were truly environmentalists you wouldn't have a storm surge system and a sanitary system hooked together here that requires you to close your beaches 10 times a year.
 Aubrey McClendon
I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.
 Aubrey McClendon