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Quotes by Businessman
"The value of an item - in the mind of a consumer - is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag."
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"Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves."
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"The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger."
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"The most beautiful, amazing and inevitable fact about life- Everything has a natural healing process."
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"One right decision doth not a great president make."
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"Our job is to bring the dead facts to life."
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"Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about."
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"We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake."
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"Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities."
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"The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing."
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"Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach."
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"The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself."
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"If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?"
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"It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions."
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"You can always learn to do more than you can at any point in your life."
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"We have believed at CA that consolidation of this industry is something that was required ten years ago."
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"I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death."
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"I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool."
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"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."
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"If you look at it, life is like one big series of lessons, that starts the moment we are born."
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"Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware."
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"If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father."
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"There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs."
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"We're obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself."
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"People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant."
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"The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs."
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"It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations."
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"We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store."
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"You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition."
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"I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team."
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"Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?"
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"So you will see us continue to advance the state of the art or take information that we have in our response data bases and have that drive automation or an automated response by some of our products."
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"I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake."
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"But if you look at teams that want to share more revenues, they're teams that don't have a lot on the table. They've long since not had any serious investment in their team."
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"From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money."
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"I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company."
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"Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze."
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"Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school."
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"I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments."
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"He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave."
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"Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all."
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"My lovefor youwill always belike a mountain stream.quiet. persistent. continuous."
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"My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade."
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"People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have."
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"Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen."
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"We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse."
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"You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government."
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