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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."
279
"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."
144
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws."
130
"Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure."
121
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
107
"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."
106
"What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?"
87
"When preparing to climb a mountain - pack a light heart."
81
"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."
72
"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."
71
"People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them."
68
"If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man."
64
"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."
62
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
62
"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."
58
"Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving."
57
"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."
56
"Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department."
56
"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed."
52
"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."
52
"Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them."
52
"I got off the abutment and walked towards my office."
50
"The best number for a dinner party is two; myself and a dam' good head waiter."
50
"And, of course, customers really need to feel safe and are seeking reassurance when they fly."
49
"I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator."
49
"If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won."
48
"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."
48
"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."
48
"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."
46
"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."
46
"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."
46
"Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety."
45
"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."
45
"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere."
45
"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."
44
"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."
43
"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks."
43
"I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular."
43
"The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work."
43
"So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one."
42
"The Blackberry is really essential for keeping up on my emails when I'm out of the office, which is a lot."
42
"It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen."
42
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