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Quotes by Businessman

"The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing."

"The boundaries of your abilities are set by no one else but yourself, ultimately, and it is up to you when they will be pushed."

"A flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand;but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon,when I don't know, if you will ever come back."


"Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying."

"There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females."


"I would say that my parents were supportive of me."

"If you have attributes that you could use less productively last year than you can this year (meaning you are more productive), then you have made progress. The opposite equates to regression."


"Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life."

"There are some poemsthat we leave behindsome that leave us behindwhile some just livesilentlyin the heartcrumble, sometimesdwindledisappeardieand are rebornwhen you smile again."

"And I know that I'm not perfect,But this path feels perfect."

"So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on."

"Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector."

"I think the Chinese government is doing a great job right now."

"Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis."


"Things don't have to change the world to be important."


"Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise."

"Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions."

"So in 2000, when we changed the business model and started really focusing on that triangle and putting the customer in the center, we decided we should hold off - we've done enough consolidation; we've got enough critical mass."

"So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late."

"It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'."

"The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business."

"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."

"My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States."


"But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess."


"The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper."

"Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time."

"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."

"Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that."

"We love Cyclops and as you know, we love James. It's a great team and we'll continue the team, obviously."
Love,

"Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future."

"You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!"

"The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman."
Will,


"I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software."


"There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result."

"Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss."

"Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there."

"I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life."
Life,

"Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization."

"Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization."

"Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders."

"Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake."

"Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains."

"When I was in Taiwan, I was taught in school that Taiwan is part of China."

"And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years."

"You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care."


"Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design."


"I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants."
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