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Quotes by Businessman
"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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"The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare."
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"Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter."
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"Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great."
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"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle."
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"So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else."
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"If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right."
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"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
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"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."
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"If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype."
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"What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER."
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"We want to turn our inventory faster than our people."
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"Of course, nothing happens until somebody sells something."
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"We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations."
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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."
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"We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."
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"A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard."
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"The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that."
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"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real."
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"Do you know how many plastic surgeries are done to the actors and actresses in Hollywood?"
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"Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child."
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"Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes."
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"There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune."
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"You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!"
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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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"Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts."
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"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
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"Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth."
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"I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps."
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"The world is divided into people who do things - and people who get the credit."
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"Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there."
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"With out passion you dont have energy, with out energy you have nothing."
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"Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with."
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"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."
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"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."
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"The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits."
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"Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it."
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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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"Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product."
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"The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you."
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"There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do."
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"There is little success where there is little laughter."
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"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."
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