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Quotes by Businessman
"What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate."
Fate,
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"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."
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"My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out."
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"The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies."
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"I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board."
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"The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services."
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"We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes."
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"I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances."
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"The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal."
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"I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software."
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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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"The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay."
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"Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments."
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"The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself."
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"At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff."
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"The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth."
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"If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent."
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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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"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals."
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"Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years."
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"No more waking up at noon, updating FC for an hour, and spending the rest of the day cashing FC checks and watching porn? It was a hard decision, but, like, I'm a man now."
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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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"If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one."
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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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"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
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"If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic."
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"The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams."
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"When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom."
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"It is when life pushes you down that you learn to get up and go higher."
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"The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be."
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"Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time."
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"If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars."
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"I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property."
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"I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier."
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"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."
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"I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out."
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"Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back."
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"No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power."
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"When instinct speaks, listen to it. It might be the next push you need to reach greater heights."
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"In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits."
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"Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts."
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"Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents."
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