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Quotes by Businessman

"I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life... whatever god blesses you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal."

"A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason."

"When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes."

"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication."

"Don't say it's because of benefits, because our benefits are good."


"The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want."

"Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time."


"I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property."

"When instinct speaks, listen to it. It might be the next push you need to reach greater heights."

"Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts."

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

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

"And I'm comfortable being who I am, so I think a lot of people who take over from a founder worry about how they compare to the founder; I worry about doing the best I can."

"I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done."

"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."


"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."

"For this to make sense, of course, it would have to be a fair financial deal for us. But I think this could be the occasion for us to build a true partnership in content. And we're especially interested because interactive services are a key field for us."

"You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this."

"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?"


"Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn."


"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy."

"I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn."

"Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it."


"When your future arrives, will you blame your past?"


"It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction."


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

"First, our focus on security is on the infrastructure itself. So it is all about how you protect the network, the device, and the application that is riding on the server."

"Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries."

"Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead."

"It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives."

"If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else."

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

"The U.S. and Israel probably lead the way in terms of venture investment in technologies companies focused on the security paradigm. That is quite encouraging."

"Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper."

"No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't."


"The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally."

"I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems."

"Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things."

"Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments."


"At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff."

"Some story appears in some newspaper that says that somebody said X, Y, and Z, and a customer says, I don't understand what they're talking about - we're running that product, we've been using it for five years, what are they talking about?"

"The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness."


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

"It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams."
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