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Quotes by Businessman
"War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules."
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"So if I die, somebody else from the corporation will take over the business."
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"A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain."
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"You must make the product interesting, not just make the ad different. And that's what too many of the copywriters in the U.S. today don't yet understand."
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"I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image."
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"The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march."
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"Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm."
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"In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits."
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"Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past."
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"As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure."
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"What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team."
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"The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in."
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"I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill."
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"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."
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"The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea."
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"In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change."
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"But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company."
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"That doesn't mean you have to have the lowest costs in the industry to succeed. But you need to make sure the activities and product attributes that increase your costs above the other guy bring in at least that much more in revenue, and hopefully more."
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"The purpose of a business is to create a customer."
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"If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace."
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"Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform."
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"Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job; it would let me go around the world."
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"There's nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good, and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back."
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"Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable."
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"Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman."
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"So the bandwidth issue is definitely a big concern of ours."
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"The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes."
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"Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S."
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"The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications."
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"Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets."
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"I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught."
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"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty."
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"The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations."
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"I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'"
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"The Greens have every right to run, that's what democracy is, and they should argue their point by saying how they think people should vote, not by telling us to be silent."
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"On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions."
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"And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake."
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"As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers."
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"The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home."
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"Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness."
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"My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things."
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"To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone."
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"A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible."
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"I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement."
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"When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China."
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"Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets."
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"My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg."
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"We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us."
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