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Quotes by Businessman
"If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you."
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"I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us."
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"Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga."
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"I believe we're all in denial about the people we love."
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"The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life."
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"I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants."
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"If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing."
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"Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window."
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"The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins."
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"Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution."
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"The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person."
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"The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital."
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"I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse."
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"We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources."
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"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."
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"I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself."
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"Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand."
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"Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate."
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"Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself."
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"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith."
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"We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race."
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"I want to put a ding in the universe."
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"I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years."
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"If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one."
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"My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it."
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"The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom."
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"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."
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"My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education."
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"Every heart must have its privatebestseller book."
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"I want my testimony to stand on that point. But I would point out that Zona Research Inc. showed we have increased market share among business users, educational users, and government users over the past several months - and that's more recent than the IDC report."
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"Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails."
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"We didn't make no mistakes. We didn't make no mistakes."
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"I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising."
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"The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development."
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"Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs."
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"I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment."
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"Someone or something that wastes your time, makes you lose a part of your life. One you can never get back."
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"We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia."
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"What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat."
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"President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values."
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"I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist."
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"Accept changes in others, as much as you would want them to accept changes in you."
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"The best motivation is self-motivation. the guy says, "I wish someone would come by and turn me on." What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life."
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"Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business."
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"All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile."
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