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Quotes by Businessman

"OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known."

"I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband."


"Well, we're just now seeing the reductions in mortgage rates. The mortgage rates are based on the ten-year rate and the Fed controls the overnight or the shorter rates."
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"Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures."

"I breathe in...the silenceof my own heartaching with tendernesswith memories..Of home."

"Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors."

"I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes."

"When you have money in hand,only you forget who are you .But when you do not have any money in your hand,the whole world forget who you are.It's life."

"Trust the young people; trust this generation's innovation. They're making things, changing innovation every day. And all the consumers are the same: they want new things, they want cheap things, they want good things, they want unique things. If we can create these kind of things for consumers, they will come."

"The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams."

"We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour."

"The very important thing you should have is patience."


"What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'"

"A silent night. - the most eloquent poem i have ever read."

"I am a buyer of blank books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say, "Twenty-Six dollars for a blank book! Why would you pay that?" The reason I pay twenty-six dollars is to challenge myself to find something worth twenty-six dollars to put in there. All my journals are private, but if you ever got hold of one of them, you wouldn't have to look very far to discover it is worth more than twenty-six dollars"

"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half."

"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."

"This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing."

"Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive."

"I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it."


"Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society."

"I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business."


"I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty."

"For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk."

"I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier."

"Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century."

"When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society."

"For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap."

"The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything."

"Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance."

"Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act."

"I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master."

"You only have to do one good thing to be in somebody's lifetime of prayers."

"In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits."


"In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by."


"He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue."

"Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases."

"Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data."

"Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others."
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