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Quotes by Businessman
"It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise."
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"It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself."
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"If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts."
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"I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them."
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"I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences."
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"Most of the food imported to Russia came from China."
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"There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man."
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"She hates me and you hate me, but you all love Harry. Nobody loves me."
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"Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses."
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"I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature.For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration."
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"As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big."
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"Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money."
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"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
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"We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth."
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"The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had."
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"All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders."
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"We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea."
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"The world is divided into people who do things - and people who get the credit."
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"Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with."
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"Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't."
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"On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration."
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"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."
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"You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You've got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don't feel it, nothing will happen."
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"I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist."
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"A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated."
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"It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months."
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"So we have a commitment to the business and to its people."
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"The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life."
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"We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference."
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"Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people."
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"It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible."
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"You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people."
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"There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers."
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"From a relatively early age I got interested in business."
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"The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you."
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"There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else."
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"I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves."
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"Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time."
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"Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable."
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"You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception."
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"MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it."
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"Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust."
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"If you are an antichrist, you won't believe in the bible prophecy from the beginning. Which means, you won't believe that physical immortality will become possible."
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"At first, we couldn't be establishment, because we didn't have any money. We were guerrilla marketers, and we still are, a little bit. But, as we became No. 1 in our industry, we've had to modify our culture and become a bit more planned."
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"The most powerful element in advertising is the truth."
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"But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen."
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"If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger."
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