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Quotes by Businessman
"The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together."
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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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"The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution."
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"We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior."
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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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"I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee."
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"TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program."
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"Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows."
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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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"If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just."
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"Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it."
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"You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work."
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"I have known yousince the beginningof timethe one i have loved alwaysin spirit.only just discoveredin person."
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"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity."
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"The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account."
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"The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family."
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"There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on."
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"I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less."
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
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"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."
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"The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it."
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"As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it."
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"The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%."
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"If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history."
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"When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result."
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"In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost."
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"AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period."
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"We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating."
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"The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved."
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"In communications, familiarity breeds apathy."
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"Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money."
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"It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor."
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"My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod."
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"If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century."
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"If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."
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"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."
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"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."
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"Well, you know, we've got a lot of stimulus in the economy already from the tax cut, from the lowered interest rates, and also from the refinancing of mortgages."
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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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"Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn."
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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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"Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence."
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"The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness."
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