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Quotes by Businessman
"So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities."
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"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed."
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"When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them."
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"We took our eye off the ball as a company."
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"I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!"
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"The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged."
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"My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache."
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"Immortality Device has been tested and researched by medical researchers all over the world from time to time. They email me and told me what they found. I post their results sometimes on my site."
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"Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three."
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"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana."
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"Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before."
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"Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product."
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"We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits."
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"Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world."
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"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs."
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"In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels."
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"Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties."
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"I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs."
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"The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous."
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"Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others."
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"One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn't had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem."
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"Right now we think that rates will stay low, that you'll be able to get a mortgage below seven percent and that's kicked off a refinance boom that's going to put more money in the pockets of consumers."
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"The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services."
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"Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence."
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"Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone."
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"Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working."
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"My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil."
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"Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power."
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"I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline."
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"What you can't buy is the loyalty that comes through our dedicated crewmembers."
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"We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller."
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"I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world."
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"Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea."
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"All I know is, he's a good kid, and he's done right all his life. And he always treats other people right."
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"Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many."
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"In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'"
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"I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity."
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"If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny."
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"Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force."
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"Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?"
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"So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic."
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"We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America."
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"What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming."
Want,
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"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
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"The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength."
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"Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs."
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"I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place."
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"First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it."
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"Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics."
Now,
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