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"It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online."
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"It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online."
First
"Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect."
Technology
"I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing."
Law
"From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance."
Business
"Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first."
Technology
"I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government."
Government
"And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer."
Money
"There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes."
People
"In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded."
Work
"Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better."
Change
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