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Quotes by Businessman
"I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve."
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"You only know how you feel, and you can only guess how others feel."
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"I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere."
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"Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'"
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"If you don't mind them and accept that they don't like you, you'll see that you won't return the negativity."
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"Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opened up and a lot of blood and many more things came out."
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"I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten."
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"Well, I think as long as people are talking about stimulus, I think the Fed will be thinking about cutting rates because monetary policy is the better way to go because you can turn it on and turn it off."
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"I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago."
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"I realizedJune had never beenjust a monthmusic...never just a trembleon my lipswarmth was nevermerely a blanket."
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"For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments."
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"You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now."
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"My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old."
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"Not many abilities are inherent. Most are acquired through patient practice, and those that are inherent are enhanced and utilized through practice too."
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"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings."
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"Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present."
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"The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves."
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"I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare."
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"Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but it doesn't mean that they are right and you should listen to them."
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"As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream."
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"I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service."
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"Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done."
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"Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do."
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"The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world."
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"If my life were a fragrance, it would smell like the sea."
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"Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works."
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"Your action plan is what you use to turn your dream into reality."
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"Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we're now in so much trouble."
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"Luck relies on chance, labor on character."
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"History shows you don't know what the future brings."
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"A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard."
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"The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that."
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"I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes."
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"With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate."
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"I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time."
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"Clients do not expect the infrastructure to be any less reliable just because the service is being delivered from an offshore location; thus, the uptime requirements justify the expense."
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"Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want."
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"I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore."
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"The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California."
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"Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public."
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"Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into."
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"Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them."
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"And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that they were now able to manufacture it and that they were going to kill Intel."
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"Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community."
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"My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley."
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