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Quotes by Businessman
"It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride."
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"We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many."
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"My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people."
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"I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation."
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"In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves."
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"I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master."
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"What ismore beautifultears, in someone's eyesfor meor in my eyesfor them."
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"We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks."
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"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships."
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"I support population control. I think USA should do the same."
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"Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new."
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"Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money."
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"Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible."
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"I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team."
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"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."
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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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"Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron."
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"Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others."
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"Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public."
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"Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into."
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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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"There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune."
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"You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!"
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"A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'."
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"I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act."
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"Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing."
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"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
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"The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated."
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"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy."
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"Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it."
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"When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them."
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"You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government."
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"If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade."
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"You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man."
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"Napster works because people who love music share and participate."
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"Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program."
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"In the '20s they were telling us wed all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon."
Moon,
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"It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one."
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"To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states."
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"There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America."
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"We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss."
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"The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks."
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"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs."
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"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."
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"In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels."
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"There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else."
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