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Quotes by Businessman
"The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous."
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"Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time."
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"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."
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"Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence."
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"CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas."
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"Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare."
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"The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances."
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"I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation."
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"I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world."
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"Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many."
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"Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that."
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"Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work."
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"I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity."
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"If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny."
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"Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force."
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"We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly."
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"I want to put a ding in the universe."
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"So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic."
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"It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad."
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"To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone."
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"Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth -it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million."
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"It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance."
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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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"The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together."
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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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"This is a game that's going to play as long as you're playing it. It's never going to end. It'll go until I retire, and when the next person has the job, they'll be on it too."
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"You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers."
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"When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well."
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"I think even if I did the research mentioned above, it would be a total waste of money because if those people don't believe in the testimonials, they won't believe in the research at all. They would say that I made it all up. So why waste money?"
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"Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics."
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"Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople."
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"Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process."
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"Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures."
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"I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!"
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"The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer."
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"As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think."
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"Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family."
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"Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person."
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"There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines."
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"The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself."
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"Well, now, and there's - for every dollar the federal government spends, there's real people on the other side, and so when we talk about reductions that are going to affect providers, that's going to affect hospitals and doctors and others."
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"Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter."
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"We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour."
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"It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war."
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"One right decision doth not a great president make."
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"I could not understand how it could move under its own power. And when it had driven past me, without even thinking why I found myself chasing it down the road, as hard as I could run."
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