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Quotes by Businessman

"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."

"What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'"

"I can't think of a time that the U.S. government asked us or instructed us not to report or air something."

"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying."

"I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly."

"This just makes me know and understand that there is no one reality that suits all, just one that suits each of us."

"Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority."

"If we were in a similar circumstance in the future I would want to make sure that our reporting was at least as diverse as it was during this most recent war."

"Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive."

"I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business."

"For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk."

"When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society."

"I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information."

"Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning."


"And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise."

"A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment."

"I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week."

"Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest."

"As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins."

"In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by."

"My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army."

"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."

"A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs."

"I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching."

"When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable."

"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

"Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money."

"Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States."


"I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice."

"Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth."

"Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with."

"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."

"Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch."

"Immortality Device has been tested and researched by medical researchers all over the world from time to time. They email me and told me what they found. I post their results sometimes on my site."

"I believe we're all in denial about the people we love."

"We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco."

"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."

"On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have."


"I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks."

"I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times."

"Always do more than you get paid for to make an investment in your future."

"Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window."

"I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team."
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