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Quotes by Businessman
"The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated."
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"Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon."
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"Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work."
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"Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing."
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"No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company."
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"There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it."
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"Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program."
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"Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler."
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"I saw a report yesterday. There's so much oil, all over the world, they don't know where to dump it. And Saudi Arabia says, 'Oh, there's too much oil.' They - they came back yesterday. Did you see the report? They want to reduce oil production. Do you think they're our friends? They're not our friends."
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"Well, there are about 10 million children that aren't covered by health insurance. About 3 million qualify for Medicaid but don't get it, so we're going to reach out and bring more of those kids into the Medicaid program."
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"Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability."
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"I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times."
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"The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks."
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"I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team."
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"The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress."
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"Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows."
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"That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle."
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"But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit."
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"I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances."
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"The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay."
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"The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc."
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"The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts."
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"Our philosophy is that we want to be an ecosystem. Our philosophy is to empower others to sell, empower others to service, making sure the other people are more powerful than us. With our technology, our innovation, our partners - 10 million small business sellers - they can compete with Microsoft and IBM."
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"Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee."
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"Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam. He might well stand beside me as a global warming denier."
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"Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires."
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"Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance."
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"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."
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"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
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"If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?"
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"Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success."
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"Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line."
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"Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero."
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"My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff."
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"I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality."
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"When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun."
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"Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?"
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"I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!"
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"Creation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin."
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"Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to."
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"As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together."
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"I breathe in...the fragranceof love, and moist sandthe onehis roses lefton both my handsI just keep on breathingevery momentas much as I canpreserving it, in my bodyfor the dayit can't."
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"There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines."
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"One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me."
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"Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter."
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"Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up."
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