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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."
114
"Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety."
113
"I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis."
112
"So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one."
111
"Creativity is just connecting things."
111
"I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society."
110
"The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children."
110
"Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge."
108
"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."
107
"If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?"
105
"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."
103
"India has the unique advantages of having the biggest domestic market and this should support IT companies."
101
"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."
101
"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."
98
"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."
96
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
95
"Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be."
93
"We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor."
91
"Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department."
89
"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."
88
"My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international."
87
"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."
86
"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
86
"We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge."
85
"We were able to flood the zone immediately."
84
"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."
84
"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."
84
"I think I am the oldest member and have been in good standing longer than any other member of this church."
83
"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it."
81
"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."
79
"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."
79
"Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose."
79
"Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things."
79
"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."
77
"Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war."
77
"Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers."
77
"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art."
77
"Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards."
76
"An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information."
75
"He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car."
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75
"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."
74
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