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Quotes by Businessman

"So use your own property as not to injure that of another."

"The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be."

"Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles."


"The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary."


"And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth."

"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans."

"If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network."

"When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver."


"The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies."

"To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege."

"Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did."


"Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you."

"Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor."

"Communication is everyone's panacea for everything."

"Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment."

"No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living."

"You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind."


"I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world."


"Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present."


"The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast."

"Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it."


"Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought."

"The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way."


"A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness."

"I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?"


"It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books."

"The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want."


"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on."

"I walked in and inherited a management group that I didn't know very well. They didn't know me, and we had a very short window to put together a credible recovery plan."

"The best way to lose a job is just not to care. When you do not care, it shows in everything you do."


"Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers."


"You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me."

"There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it."

"It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye."


"You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price."

"The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else."

"Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss."

"Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up."

"Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films."

"I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches."

"The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships."

"You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers."

"I think even if I did the research mentioned above, it would be a total waste of money because if those people don't believe in the testimonials, they won't believe in the research at all. They would say that I made it all up. So why waste money?"

"Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost."
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