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Quotes by Businessman

"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."

"You must remain focused on your journey to greatness."

"Control your own destiny or someone else will."

"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time."

"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."

"Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything."

"I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar."

"In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality."

"There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise."

"The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness."

"Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen."

"I think in terms of the work we're doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier."

"We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time."
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"An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it."

"Consumers are statistics. Customers are people."

"What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction."

"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."


"Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world."

"Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level."

"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."

"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."

"September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy."

"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself."

"If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network."

"After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts."

"I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs."

"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."

"Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others."

"Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking."

"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."

"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."

"Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good."

"Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal."

"Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system."

"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield."

"There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can."

"You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory."

"I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put."

"Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction."

"Few service industries are designed to be 24x7 in India, and thus there was no 24x7 mentality."

"Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges."

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."

"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."

"Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows."

"A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large."

"Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves."
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