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Quotes by Businessman
"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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"Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together."
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"The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market."
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"Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge."
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"We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor."
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"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."
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"Innovation comes from saying no to 1,000 things."
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"Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again."
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"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose."
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"This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control."
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"Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards."
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"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."
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"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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"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."
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"My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her."
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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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"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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"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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"My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international."
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"The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred."
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"You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure."
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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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"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."
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"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership."
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"I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No."
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"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other."
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"My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person."
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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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"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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"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
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"I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world."
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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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"A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself."
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"An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information."
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"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it."
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"If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing."
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"What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold."
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"Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world."
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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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"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."
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"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
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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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"Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along."
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"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."
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"The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West."
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