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Quotes by Businessman
"Our customers call and e-mail us to say that's how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that's how we view this company."
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"We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries."
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"It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea."
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"Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now."
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"Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive."
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"The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace."
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"Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges."
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"I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms."
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"You must constantly change and adapt to a new environment."
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"All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect."
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"We would rather have our employees running our business."
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"Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition."
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"Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it."
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"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."
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"The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains."
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"This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal."
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"They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up."
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"In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create."
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"Take one more step because it might be the last one needed."
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"It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance."
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"The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences."
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"There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors."
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"No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?"
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"Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock."
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"Focusing is about saying No."
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"Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have."
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"Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself."
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"By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate."
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"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."
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"By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent."
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"Not words. nor laughter. but rather someonewho will fall in lovewith your silence."
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"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."
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"Give mea moon-blanket nightto keep me warma long-gone smileto comfort mea pair of rain-blue eyesto haunt mea simple soul...to love me."
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"What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life."
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"Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity."
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"For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good."
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"I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out."
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"Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build."
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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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"If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers."
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"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
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"Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States."
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"School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects."
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"Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children."
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