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Quotes by Businessman
"Software is like sex: it's better when it's free."
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"But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes."
73
"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."
73
"I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up."
73
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
73
"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."
73
"The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children."
72
"Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be."
72
"A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others."
72
"Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety."
71
"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it."
69
"India has the unique advantages of having the biggest domestic market and this should support IT companies."
68
"I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society."
68
"I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis."
68
"Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception."
68
"We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge."
67
"So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one."
66
"Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge."
66
"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."
66
"If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?"
65
"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."
65
"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."
65
"After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward."
65
"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
64
"A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one."
63
"Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things."
63
"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."
62
"Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers."
62
"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."
62
"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."
61
"Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war."
61
"I think I am the oldest member and have been in good standing longer than any other member of this church."
60
"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."
60
"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."
58
"Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards."
58
"The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred."
58
"Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare."
58
"The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language."
57
"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now."
57
"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."
57
"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art."
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