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Quotes by Businessman
"The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay."
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"There's no point in being an unhappy success, and there's not much sense in being a happy failure either."
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"There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles."
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"In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately."
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"I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out."
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"Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming."
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"My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions."
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"I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final."
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"Let your library be a testimonial of your dedicated interest in accelerated personal development, that you will read whatever you have to read you will hear whatever you must hear and you will watch and see whatever you must see in order to make your life refined and worthwhile and achieve all your purpose."
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"There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men."
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"But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth."
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"The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it."
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"Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't."
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"We need someone who is a strong representative of our value system."
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"God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender."
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"But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908."
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"When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen."
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"I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built."
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"I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times."
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"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."
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"Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound."
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"Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help."
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"I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living."
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"True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity."
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"We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes."
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"We understand that the real market value of Blockbuster may never be fully realized as a wholly owned part of Viacom."
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"Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda."
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"Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision."
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"The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe."
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"Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own."
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"Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure."
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"The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States."
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"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement."
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"In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government."
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"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?"
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"No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution."
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"Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money."
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"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got."
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"The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious."
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"I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?"
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"The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao."
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"When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will come to you."
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"I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks."
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"I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'."
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