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Quotes by Businessman


"To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings."

"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."

"Wherever you are, be there! Be there to absorb it. Take a picture if you can. Take pictures in your mind; let your soul and heart take pictures. Get it, capture it, absorb it. And don't be casual in getting it. Casualness leads to casualties."


"The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth."

"Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality."

"In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish."

"Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years."

"Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through."

"Few service industries are designed to be 24x7 in India, and thus there was no 24x7 mentality."

"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."

"Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future."

"I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it."

"Where we can compete on merit, we do very well."

"Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness."


"I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back."

"The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years."

"I've been reading horror since I was five years old."

"I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly."

"Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth."


"I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism."

"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."

"Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people."

"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time."


"Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value."


"I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice."

"Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch."

"Nobody alive today can tell me how much I am worth. I change that everyday."

"I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination."

"Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best."

"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."

"Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level."


"I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful."

"We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss."

"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."

"Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking."

"If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employee, then your pay is most likely right where it should be."

"Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time."

"I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation."

"To succeed, one must be creative and persistent."

"I have, in my partner George Roberts, a person who is the most wonderful man in the world to me. He's like a brother to me. Creating with him, being side by side with him, in whatever we try to do, is a real pleasure to me."
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