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Quotes by Businessman
"The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway."
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"He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison."
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"After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts."
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"If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets."
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"Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in."
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"Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network."
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"Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind."
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"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."
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"It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former."
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"We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution."
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"We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes."
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"The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration."
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"There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second."
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"CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas."
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"However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions."
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"We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you."
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"I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux."
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"Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal."
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"Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try."
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"If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there."
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"They didn't treat him right here. I know if I was him, I wouldn't come back."
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"The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people."
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"Finding your purpose isn't enough. the challenge for our generation is creating a world where everyone has a sense of purpose."
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"Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy."
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"Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process."
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"When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively."
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"The President is of opinion that if Japan makes a treaty with the United States, all other foreign countries will make the same kind of a treaty, and Japan will be safe thereafter."
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"But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half."
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"Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write."
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"My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale."
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"If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right."
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"Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual."
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"Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything."
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"When you're doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they're not on the same page."
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"Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15."
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"Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round."
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"When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach."
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"We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared."
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"All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good."
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"In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?"
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"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one."
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"The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress."
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"I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership."
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"You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future."
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"I warn you against believing that advertising is a science."
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"Today we're focused on small acquisitions to add technology where necessary. I think it's fair to say we're not out looking for a large one, but I think it's also very fair to say that as a public company you can never say never."
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