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Quotes by Businessman
"There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems."
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"There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there."
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"Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers."
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"So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late."
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"Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community."
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"We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it."
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"What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That's what they expect from us."
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"Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you."
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"Content is often the reason users come to your site."
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"For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind."
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"When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable."
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"Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change."
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"Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability."
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"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."
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"In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy."
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"Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders."
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"Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist."
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"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?"
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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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"The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word."
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"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."
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"But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them."
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"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty."
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"The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated."
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"I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be."
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"How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking."
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"Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people."
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"When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king."
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"Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience."
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"Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen."
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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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"So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities."
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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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"I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life."
Life,
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"I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."
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"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."
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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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"Sometimes divorce is better than marriage."
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"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."
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"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."
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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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"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got."
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"So we have a commitment to the business and to its people."
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"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana."
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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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"I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death."
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"We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways."
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