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Quotes by Businessman
"When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity."
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"Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that."
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"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
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"A good ad which is not run never produces sales."
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"Over time, the product we produce has been consistently successful here in America and around the world. Apparently, we are doing something right."
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"I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps."
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"Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best."
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"Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent."
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"Education: A debt due from present to future generations."
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"The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?"
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"To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless."
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"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."
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"Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability."
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"There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do."
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"Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees."
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"I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times."
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"Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it."
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"If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network."
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"The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you."
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"Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting."
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"If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else."
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"It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate."
Love,
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"You must make the product interesting, not just make the ad different. And that's what too many of the copywriters in the U.S. today don't yet understand."
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"The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa."
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"If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen."
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"Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one."
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"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."
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"Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected."
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"People want economy and they will pay any price to get it."
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"I mean I'm not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it's right and when it's wrong and that's what my strength is."
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"Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power."
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"Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal."
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"It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone."
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"I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot."
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"When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough."
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"Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job; it would let me go around the world."
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"There's nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good, and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back."
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"In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich."
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"Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason."
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"The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed."
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"The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts."
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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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"Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process."
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"In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'"
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"None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software."
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"What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it."
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"Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness."
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"I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage."
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