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Quotes by Businessman
"In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive."
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"I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations."
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"The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are."
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"You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best."
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"Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff."
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"In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'"
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"Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues."
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"It might feel good to be out of your body for awhile. But you can't stay like that forever."
Body,
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"No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world."
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"You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new."
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"We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance."
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"It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad."
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"Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire."
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"I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like."
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"We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time."
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"Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world."
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"We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent."
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"Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership."
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"I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace."
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"When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her."
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"I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success."
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"If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness."
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"After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital."
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"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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"Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?"
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"If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it."
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"The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing."
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"My whole life had been designing computers I could never build."
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"Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger."
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"I am permanentlytannedin the summer of poetry."
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"So if you're a customer today, the same person who came in to demonstrate the technology for you and helped you architect the solution before you bought it is likely going to be leading the team to help you do the implementation."
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"Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs."
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"The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking."
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"Do not primarily train men to work. Train them to serve willingly and intelligently."
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"Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem."
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"Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic."
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"Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking."
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"I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important."
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"Management is nothing more than motivating other people."
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"I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it."
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"Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again."
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"Our company has to be a company that enables its people."
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"I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family."
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"A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement."
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"The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it."
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"At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that."
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