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Barry Marshall, Nobel Prize in Medicine

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Barry Marshall

Nobel Prize in Medicine

I've got a lucky combination of a team of scientists working with me on interesting questions that I'm curious about. I also have some connections with industry, so if we have a good idea for new treatment or a new test, we can try it out on the patients, who are always very, very willing to take part in my research. They say, "Well, he did it on himself, so we can trust him, I suppose."
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Willie Mays, Baseball Hall of Fame

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Willie Mays

Baseball Hall of Fame

When I got to play stickball in New York, the kids would knock on my window in the morning. Like, if we got a day game or something, I'd be at the ball park at 12 o'clock, they would knock on at nine o'clock. Now I got to eat, I got to get up, I got to go out and play stickball with them for about 20 minutes, and then I had to go to the ball park. And I'm saying to myself, "I'm tired," but I said, "No, these are kids." We had no losers there. Everybody had ice cream. So I would take $20 out of my pocket every day, go play, buy the ice cream for all the kids, and they knew that, so they all loved that.
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Craig McCaw, Pioneer of Telecommunications

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Craig McCaw

Pioneer of Telecommunications

Craig McCaw: I think there's clearly a conflict at times between the humanistic side of a person and their success in a business career. But their ability to balance those is their very definition. It is not a question of how much you can achieve in life if you do it in an immoral manner. Ultimately, you will pay a price greater than you ever would dream it might cost you. And so, my belief has been that if I have a definition it is: "How much can we accomplish as a team, a group of people, without hurting others?"
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Craig McCaw, Pioneer of Telecommunications

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Pioneer of Telecommunications

Craig McCaw: I make a practice of trying never to read what people say about me. Because if you read what they say and you care, then they won. And I have great respect for the press, and a great belief in a free press. But it's necessary that you insulate yourself from what other people think. The greatest ideas you will ever have are the ones that other people don't understand. And if you're in that position, and you care too much what they think, you will not do the right thing. And therefore, I purposefully have long ago decided that if I live by the moral code that I want to live by, then what people think of me is not so important, because I'm doing what I believe is right and I'm not trying to hurt other people.
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