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Quotes by Businessman
"Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it."
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"I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen."
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"Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally."
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"I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way."
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"What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them."
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"I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information."
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"Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing."
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"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians."
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"Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock."
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"No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power."
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"Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction."
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"In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret."
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"Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new."
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"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real."
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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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"To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am."
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"You know, I think, people of all stripes in California, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, frankly, as I have traveled the state, the number one issue is jobs. And they are looking for which candidate can get the economy back on track."
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"I know nothing about technology."
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"In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality."
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"The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising."
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"Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child."
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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 art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles."
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"When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention."
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"An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it."
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"Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product."
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"September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy."
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"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself."
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"Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too."
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"My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out."
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"Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice."
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"The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances."
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"But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies."
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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 of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood."
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"Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising."
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"Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it."
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"I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need."
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"You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory."
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"I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that - that we could have a negative reaction in the bond market and that will offset the good that was attempted to be done."
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"The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated."
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"Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking."
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"Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are."
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"No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud."
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"The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself."
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"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."
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"There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important."
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