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"And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth."
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"Business is the salt of life."
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"Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money."
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"Asking the appropriate questions means understanding exactly what your customer is trying to achieve."
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"Tell your good news as an evangelist would. Do so with a passion driven by a need to help and solve problems that some people didn't even know they had."
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"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours."
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"Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off."
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"This marriage is no one's business but our own."
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"If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way."
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"Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society."
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"They will therefore not be in a hurry to risk their entire business by expanding too rapidly, but they are the major indicator of whether the manufacturing industry accepts there is a sustainable business in RFID production."
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"I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother."
Family
"I think the support of the other team at AOL and everybody's really shared passion and belief about this and - saying that some day everybody was going to be on line."
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"We don't want to turn the TV into a computer."
Computer
"My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor."
Family
"And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership."
Leadership
"And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal."
People
"So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles."
People
"Nowadays people seem to switch schools, either because they have to, and certain schools only serve certain grades, or because they move to a different place or have some particular interest, but I was in the same school for 13 years."
People
"There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on."
Fact
"So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years."
Strategy
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