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I think it's a major success story, especially when you think of the downside. Securing it is good news and I'm thrilled. It was amazingly difficult, much more than I imagined. There were some down times and I worried about it going first to Shanghai and then to Doha, but we had good people working hard to get the right result.


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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowled...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN What has become clear to you since we last met?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Our necessities never equal our wants.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Lying rides upon debt's back.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would know the value of money try to borrow some.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do thing...
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