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Quotes by Businessman
"The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work."
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"My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them."
57
"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks."
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"We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge."
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"Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers."
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"Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests."
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"Software is like sex: it's better when it's free."
55
"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it."
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"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
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"I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society."
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"Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity."
54
"I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it."
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"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."
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"We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for."
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"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere."
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"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."
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"India has the unique advantages of having the biggest domestic market and this should support IT companies."
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"But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes."
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"So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one."
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"But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire."
50
"After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward."
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"The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language."
49
"I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis."
49
"You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it."
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"Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be."
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"It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen."
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"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now."
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"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
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"Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things."
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"If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?"
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"I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way."
47
"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art."
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"I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more."
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"People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born."
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"Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."
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"The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."
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"Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception."
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"Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war."
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"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
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"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."
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"I have had all of the disadvantages required for success."
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"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth."
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"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."
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