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Quotes by Businessman

"Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online."
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"Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women."

"What you don't know will hurt you. What you don't know will tragically affect your life. What you don't know will leave your life empty. What you don't know will leave you without a relationship. We're all affected by knowledge, whether we know or whether we don't know. That's why you've got to read the books."


"Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple."

"The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%."

"It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual."


"Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family."

"Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes."


"You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out."

"Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera."

"I'm very comfortable in having a strong team. I'm very comfortable in sharing the limelight with the team."

"Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising."

"Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while."

"I actually do think you're seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that's a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what's going on with them."

"Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead."

"People don't act the way they do because of me. They just act out their own projection of reality, and so do I."

"Learn from all, but copy none and just be yourself."

"Your perception of your dream changes as you walk toward it."

"It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war."

"The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach."


"I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement."

"Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own."


"People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps."

"Whether or not the standard of living made possible by mass production and in turn by mass circulation, is supported by and filled with the work of us hucksters, I guess is something that only history can decide."


"I could not understand how it could move under its own power. And when it had driven past me, without even thinking why I found myself chasing it down the road, as hard as I could run."


"Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs."

"The future starts within a second from now.The past was, within a second ago."


"No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time."

"I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone."

"We don't want a third party who may or may not have our best interests in mind or our crew members' best interests in mind because they may be serving a union of one of our competitors. They are trying to equalize us and take away our competitive advantage."

"We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world."

"The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing."

"Some say they love you, but some actually "do" the loving. These are the ones that truly love you, because love is seen in actions."

"Everything that is scatteredcomes together in wordseverything that is lostcomes back in poetry."

"Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought."

"Avoiding the phrase "I don't have time...", will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life."

"Your gazeacrossmy cheeksturned theminto strawberry fields."

"I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers."

"We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business."

"People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards."

"Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them."

"Independence and free thought is what makes a person grow. By giving people the freedom and space to figure out who they are and be that, you give them the power to grow."

"I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity."
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