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Quotes by Businessman
"It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy."
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"I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat."
7
"Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great."
7
"If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management."
7
"A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts."
7
"Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural."
7
"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."
7
"The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line."
7
"The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process."
7
"Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations."
7
"Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities."
7
"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity."
7
"There has been only one manager, and his name is John McGraw."
7
"To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients' best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations."
7
"I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to."
7
"To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas."
7
"Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work."
7
"Your successful past will block your visions of the future."
7
"In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost."
7
"If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?"
7
"A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country."
7
"If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so."
7
"The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves."
7
"There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers."
7
"My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions."
7
"We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company."
7
"If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?"
7
"Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction."
7
"In life I've learned one thing; if you want to be good you have to connect with the best people. So I got very close to the high-stakes players here. I get to watch them and play with them a little bit."
7
"I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry."
7
"Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do."
Want,
7
"We tell anybody who asks that we think Apple is making a big mistake by not being compatible."
7
"I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out."
6
"The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future."
6
"It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes."
6
"A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard."
6
"There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. that's true of all types of consumer electronics."
Time,
6
"The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it."
6
"It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations."
6
"I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead."
6
"I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?"
6
"My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army."
6
"The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old."
6
"If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century."
6
"You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others."
Will,
6
"There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems."
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