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Quotes by Businessman
"The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years."
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"We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac."
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"If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong."
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"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
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"I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine."
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"As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much."
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"Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message."
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"Poets. have the toughest jobin the universe-of turning silenceinto eloquence."
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"Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa."
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"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better."
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"You need to decide what problems, what opportunities, what projects you're going to work on."
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"That's a very critical phase in customer service because you can start to really understand what part of customer service has value to customers and what part is bothering customers."
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"I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking."
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"The speed of the boss is the speed of the team."
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"Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?"
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"I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television."
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"We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it."
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"The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important."
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"With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse."
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"The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda."
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"Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them."
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"Holding the eveningtremblingly close to mei weepinto the sun lettingthe burdenof hopelift off my chesti realizethis is what it meansto be free."
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"So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books."
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"Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president."
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"I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think."
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"The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can't give them that but let's always keep it in mind."
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"Nothing comes merely by thinking about it."
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"It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy."
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"Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light."
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"Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience."
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"Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts."
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"Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs."
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"As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feetinto the night's velvet slippersI settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag,of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars."
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"That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization."
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"There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection."
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"I want you to crave the crisp ocean breezeas much as I do.I want your soul to beas rain-swept as mine."
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"The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'"
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"When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again."
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"Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years."
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"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good."
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"You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion."
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"There is nothing in the company that is either above or below me, as far as I'm concerned."
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"Far too many executives have become more concerned with the "four P's" - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders."
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"Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top."
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"I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad."
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"This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries."
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"Of course, we should all be aware of what we're packing in our carry-on luggage - anything that might be considered dangerous could be confiscated at a security checkpoint."
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