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Quotes by Businessman
"And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that they were now able to manufacture it and that they were going to kill Intel."
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"Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company."
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"A good ad which is not run never produces sales."
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"We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse."
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"I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn."
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"Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it."
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"Nobody alive today can tell me how much I am worth. I change that everyday."
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"Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization."
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"My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache."
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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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"What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction."
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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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"All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer."
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"If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out."
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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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"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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"I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win."
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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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"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."
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"If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once."
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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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"It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams."
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"In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'"
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"Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates."
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"And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms."
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"I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put."
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"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals."
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"When you're doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they're not on the same page."
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"The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live."
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"I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night."
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"My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it."
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"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
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"Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try."
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"We would rather have our employees running our business."
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"We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'"
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"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
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"No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized."
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"A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge."
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"First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it."
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"Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books."
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"There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice."
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"I have ways of making money that you know nothing of."
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"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."
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"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas."
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"People everywhere love Windows."
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"I want my testimony to stand on that point. But I would point out that Zona Research Inc. showed we have increased market share among business users, educational users, and government users over the past several months - and that's more recent than the IDC report."
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