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Quotes by Businessman
"Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time."
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"I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it."
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"There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success."
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"You now have to decide what 'image' you want for your brand. Image means personality. Products, like people, have personalities, and they can make or break them in the market place."
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"It is always the start that requires the greatest effort."
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"For we all have our own twilights and mistsand abyssesto return to."
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"Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten."
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"It is when life pushes you down that you learn to get up and go higher."
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"What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three."
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"What ismore beautifultears, in someone's eyesfor meor in my eyesfor them."
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"There are billions of people in the world, and each one of them has their own view of reality."
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"A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road."
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"Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board."
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"Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation."
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"Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service."
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"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
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"The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock."
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"I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary."
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"What you do as president has consequences."
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"Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that."
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"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
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"Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares."
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"What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance."
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"If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade."
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"The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive - make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world."
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"Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street."
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"One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door."
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"There is little success where there is little laughter."
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"We gained his operational capabilities and he gained our marketing skills."
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"It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead."
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"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals."
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"You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together."
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"The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link."
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"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it."
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"The market controls everything, but the market has no heart."
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"It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to to , We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do."
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"When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power."
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"Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in."
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"At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword."
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"But I tell you, I would really be interested if there was a partner we could take in, that could put them over here on the side, that would allow us full leverage and access down the road."
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"Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far."
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"I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure."
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"When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier."
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"Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it."
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