Link between these people? What do they all have in common?

The Game Room
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Napoleon: “The Art of War does not require complicated maneuvers; the simplest are the best”.
Einstein: “Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted”.
Steve Jobs: “I want to put a ding in the universe”.
Winston Churchill: “Never, Never, Never, Give up!”
John Maynard Keynes: “In the Long Run we are all dead”.
Tom Peters: “Management by Walking Around”
Henry Ford: “If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from that persons angle as well as from your own”.
Dame Anita Roddick: “If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management”.

The Clue
The clue is the “nine dots” puzzle. It means to think outside the box; thinking differently, unconventionally or from a new perspective

What I would like to know is, what is the common link between these figures? The clue fits in with the answer.

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All are quoted in this quiz.

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They all had more than the average number of legs.

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They all have their own Wikipedia article.

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Since this is evidently a puzzle, it’s better suited to the Game Room than GQ.

Colibri
General Questions Moderator

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They all have an “o” in their name, except for Einstein.

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They’re all carbon-based lifeforms.

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I believe they are projected to have all been diagnosed with a form of functional Aspergers.

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You can connect them all with four lines.

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You can connect them all with one line, if you fold the paper right.

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None of them have ever been in my kitchen.

This is not a riddle. It’s complicated form of the ‘chicken butt’ joke.

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Think I got it, though I did have to venture pretty far outside the box:

Henry Ford: “If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from that persons angle as well as from your own”.
Anita Roddick, Dame: “If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management”.
Napoleon: “The Art of War does not require complicated maneuvers; the simplest are the best”.
Keynes, John Maynard: “In the Long Run we are all dead”.

Steve Jobs: “I want to put a ding in the universe”.
Tom Peters: “Management by Walking Around”
Einstein: “Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted”.
Winston Churchill: “Never, Never, Never, Give up!”

Hmm…cryptic.

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What the heck is “hank stew”, and what does it have to do with anything? Plus, to make that work, you have to use Einstein’s last name, Henry Ford’s first name, and leave off the “Dame” the puzzle statement attaches to Anita Roddick.

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They all have vowels in their names.

ETA: On further inspection, consonants too! Truly a difficult challenge.

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None of them have been in my kitchen.

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Nor mine, either.

All of them are either male or female.

None of them were ever crowned Emperor of France, except one.

I’ve heard of all of them before today, except one.

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None of them has a prehensile tail.

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The first four start NESW - the cardinal directions in English in order round a compass. What can people make from JTHD?

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Ha, this is easy: they all have 14 K of G in a F P D!

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That all the quotes from them were all actually speeches in their entirety.