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Quotes by Businessman
"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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"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."
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"The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them."
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"One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn't had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem."
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"To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege."
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"Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence."
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"If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employee, then your pay is most likely right where it should be."
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"What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good."
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"I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world."
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"I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way."
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"The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself."
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"Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand."
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"Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate."
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"The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges."
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"I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation."
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"None of my neighbors believe in what I say. They refuse to wear the rings. They will never accept my invention until the day they die. That's what I call the real antichrists."
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"Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss."
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"If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them."
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"The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains."
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"Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures."
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"Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price."
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"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
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"Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration."
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"The market controls everything, but the market has no heart."
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"A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large."
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"The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being."
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"Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic."
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"It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war."
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"Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light."
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"The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together."
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"I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did."
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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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"When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes."
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"Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'"
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"I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten."
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"We don't want a third party who may or may not have our best interests in mind or our crew members' best interests in mind because they may be serving a union of one of our competitors. They are trying to equalize us and take away our competitive advantage."
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"Of course, we should all be aware of what we're packing in our carry-on luggage - anything that might be considered dangerous could be confiscated at a security checkpoint."
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"I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business."
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"Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself."
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"Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business."
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"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
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"Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century."
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"Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement."
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