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Quotes by Businessman

"I have a high degree of confidence about India's growth potential in IT."


"But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them."

"Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer."

"Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth."

"When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king."

"We, we - as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market."


"It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools."


"We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either."


"Public behavior is merely private character writ large."

"Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in."


"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."

"Consumers are statistics. Customers are people."

"What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction."

"Always do more than you get paid for to make an investment in your future."

"The quality of ownership is not what it was in yesteryear."

"I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth."

"If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information."


"Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over."

"The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content."

"We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn."

"The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything."

"Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton."

"I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery."


"And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you."

"The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa."

"I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents."

"We're running the company to serve more people."

"He shouldn't be alone at a time like this. This is a special time for me to be around as much as I can. He needs his family and his friends and his fans."


"Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them."

"You put him in front of 50,000 people, he's at home."

"I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me."

"Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good."

"Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did."

"I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California."

"Some people like to spend their time watching and studying how other people spend their own time."

"Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist."


"And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there."


"I may not have been the best Yankee to put on the pinstripes, but I am the proudest."

"Thought, not money, is the real business capital."

"The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success."


"The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it."

"You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred."

"In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait."


"Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!"

"I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work."


"A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch."

"That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates."

"The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor."


"I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened."
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