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Quotes by Businessman
"Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom."
94
"When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results."
93
"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."
93
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."
92
"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it."
92
"Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose."
92
"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."
91
"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership."
91
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
91
"He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car."
Car,
91
"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."
91
"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."
91
"We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge."
91
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
90
"A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others."
90
"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
90
"And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department."
89
"The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred."
87
"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."
87
"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."
86
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
86
"Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards."
85
"An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information."
85
"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."
85
"After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward."
85
"Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war."
84
"I have had all of the disadvantages required for success."
84
"Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers."
84
"Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway."
84
"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art."
84
"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth."
83
"Just being yourself is the easiest thing you can do. It doesn't take much effort."
83
"I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead."
82
"When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did."
82
"Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering."
82
"We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments."
82
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
82
"Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business."
81
"I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way."
81
"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes."
81
"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."
80
"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."
80
"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now."
79
"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."
79
"I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did."
79
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
78
"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose."
77
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