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Quotes by Businessman
"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now."
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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."
56
"I have had all of the disadvantages required for success."
56
"I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way."
55
"It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen."
55
"I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead."
54
"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere."
54
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
54
"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth."
54
"My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international."
54
"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership."
53
"An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information."
53
"Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently."
53
"Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people."
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"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."
53
"It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform."
52
"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."
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"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes."
51
"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."
51
"We were able to flood the zone immediately."
50
"Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together."
50
"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."
50
"Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."
50
"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose."
49
"Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done."
49
"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
49
"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."
49
"A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself."
48
"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."
48
"If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it."
48
"My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her."
48
"The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek."
48
"Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change."
48
"He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car."
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48
"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
48
"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."
48
"I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world."
48
"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."
48
"This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control."
47
"When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results."
47
"When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task."
47
"A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus."
47
"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it."
47
"What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold."
47
"But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms."
47
"Innovation comes from saying no to 1,000 things."
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