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Quotes by Businessman
"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."
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"Well, if you look back, in almost two and a half years, the biggest change probably was in late 2000 when we decided to totally change the CA business model."
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"A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one."
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"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it."
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"Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards."
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"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."
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"A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself."
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"Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher."
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"We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes."
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"He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car."
Car,
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"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
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"We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it."
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"We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge."
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"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."
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"When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky."
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"If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure."
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"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
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"The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone."
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"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."
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"You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own."
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"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
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"Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged."
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"I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there."
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"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
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"We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes."
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"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
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"You must constantly change and adapt to a new environment."
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"Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare."
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"If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars."
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"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."
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"When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors."
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"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."
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"Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it."
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"We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries."
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"The same Source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through."
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"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."
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"A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things."
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"I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places."
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"So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer."
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