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Quotes by Businessman
"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better."
174
"I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis."
173
"India has the unique advantages of having the biggest domestic market and this should support IT companies."
172
"I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society."
171
"If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?"
171
"Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge."
167
"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."
167
"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."
163
"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed."
163
"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."
162
"If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man."
161
"Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving."
160
"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."
159
"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."
159
"Well, if you look back, in almost two and a half years, the biggest change probably was in late 2000 when we decided to totally change the CA business model."
156
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
156
"We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor."
153
"My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international."
146
"Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming."
146
"We were able to flood the zone immediately."
143
"I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world... If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers."
142
"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."
142
"Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society."
136
"Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride."
135
"Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs."
132
"Creativity is just connecting things."
132
"The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders."
126
"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."
118
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said."
117
"I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did."
117
"Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be."
114
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
113
"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership."
112
"It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties."
112
"When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did."
110
"We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should."
108
"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."
108
"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."
107
"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."
107
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
106
"Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom."
106
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