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Quotes by Businessman
"I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages."
378
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws."
225
"Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure."
221
"When preparing to climb a mountain - pack a light heart."
186
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
183
"A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can."
181
"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."
178
"What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?"
177
"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."
149
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
147
"The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun."
142
"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."
141
"On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar."
136
"Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving."
136
"I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it."
134
"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better."
133
"The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on."
130
"We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside."
126
"People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them."
123
"I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too."
119
"I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular."
119
"Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming."
118
"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed."
117
"Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago."
116
"And, of course, customers really need to feel safe and are seeking reassurance when they fly."
115
"If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man."
115
"The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about."
114
"Our people get profit-sharing checks. I got a report the other day that says that 84 percent of our people participate in our stock purchase program, where they can buy stock at a 15 percent discount."
114
"Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them."
111
"If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won."
109
"My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them."
109
"Creativity is just connecting things."
107
"I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator."
107
"I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following."
106
"But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes."
105
"The best number for a dinner party is two; myself and a dam' good head waiter."
105
"Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity."
104
"The Blackberry is really essential for keeping up on my emails when I'm out of the office, which is a lot."
103
"I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it."
102
"We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for."
101
"I got off the abutment and walked towards my office."
100
"When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics."
99
"The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work."
98
"I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up."
96
"Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception."
95
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