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Quotes by Businessman
"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."
32
"Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles."
32
"I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need."
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"We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give."
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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."
32
"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."
32
"The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds."
32
"Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price."
32
"The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction."
32
"Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs."
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"The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing."
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"The market controls everything, but the market has no heart."
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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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"Take one more step because it might be the last one needed."
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"I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did."
32
"I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve."
32
"By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent."
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"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."
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"There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure."
32
"I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff."
32
"Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there's another side to the coin, and you can't remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important-creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could."
32
"Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock."
32
"Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance."
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"In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret."
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"I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it."
32
"Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people."
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"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."
31
"It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor."
31
"Nobody is thinking they're going to come out here and put a team here and become a multimillionaire. I don't know anybody that comes into the NFL like that."
31
"Most of the food imported to Russia came from China."
31
"And I'm comfortable being who I am, so I think a lot of people who take over from a founder worry about how they compare to the founder; I worry about doing the best I can."
31
"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
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"I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done."
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"For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind."
31
"A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader."
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"Information about the package is as important as the package itself."
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"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."
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"The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles."
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"This merger is a logical next step that creates substantial value for customers and stockholders of both AT&T and BellSouth. It will benefit customers through new services and expanded service capabilities."
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"I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn."
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"We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies."
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"I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually."
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"In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497."
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"Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars."
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