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Quotes by Businessman
"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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"I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis."
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"I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up."
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"But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes."
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"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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"We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor."
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"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."
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"I have had all of the disadvantages required for success."
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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."
28
"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."
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"The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children."
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"This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control."
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"My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her."
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"Innovation comes from saying no to 1,000 things."
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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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"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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"Software is like sex: it's better when it's free."
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"I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way."
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"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."
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"Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together."
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"My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person."
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"Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again."
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"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose."
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"An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information."
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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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"What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold."
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"The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun."
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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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"After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward."
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"I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world."
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"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art."
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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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"Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge."
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"We were able to flood the zone immediately."
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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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"I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No."
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"Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals."
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"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other."
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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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"Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world."
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"Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things."
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"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
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"My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international."
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"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."
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"The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek."
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"A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus."
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"The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market."
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