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Quotes by Businessman
"I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon."
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"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
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"The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison."
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"And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got."
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"There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft."
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"Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society."
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"The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want."
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"Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business."
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"Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement."
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"The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything."
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"Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction."
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"A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road."
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"The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that."
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"But I definitely see us playing a major role in St. Louis in the years to come. We already provide service to 95 percent of the markets St. Louis travelers visit the most. And we're adding capacity in some of the most important markets."
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"Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build."
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"If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers."
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"There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems."
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"I show people how to build their own immortality device."
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"I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary."
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"Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn."
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"I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!"
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"Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best."
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"Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries."
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"Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street."
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"No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't."
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"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."
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"I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I'm very good at interpreting the information."
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"I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems."
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"All I know is, he's a good kid, and he's done right all his life. And he always treats other people right."
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"Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy."
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"I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years."
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"Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles."
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"We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out."
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"None of my neighbors believe in what I say. They refuse to wear the rings. They will never accept my invention until the day they die. That's what I call the real antichrists."
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"I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband."
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"The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds."
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"Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price."
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"Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration."
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"Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs."
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"The market controls everything, but the market has no heart."
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"I've been reading horror since I was five years old."
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"Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image."
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