top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Businessman
"Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try."
53
"No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized."
53
"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."
53
"Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work."
53
"So from the housing standpoint, steady as you go, I think, would be the best medicine."
53
"When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom."
53
"If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair."
53
"The struggle hurts now but will be sweet in times of retrospect."
53
"And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got."
53
"My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts."
53
"It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride."
53
"There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure."
53
"Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap."
53
"We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company."
53
"The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk."
53
"Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest."
53
"Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice."
53
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."
52
"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."
52
"The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today."
52
"You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life."
52
"I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching."
52
"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."
52
"A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things."
52
"Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China."
52
"Information about the package is as important as the package itself."
52
"There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise."
52
"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."
52
"As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities."
52
"Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products."
52
"We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II."
52
"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."
52
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."
52
"Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers."
52
"This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful."
52
"Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision."
52
"I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris."
52
"If there's a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we will not try to keep cutting the budget so that we keep worsening a severe recession."
52
"People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income."
52
"People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness."
52
"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."
52
"No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming."
52
"Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets."
52
"The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather."
52
"I believe in giving back very strongly."
52
"Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief."
52
bottom of page